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báo cáo khoa học:"Health related quality of life in patients with anogenital warts"

Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: Health related quality of life in patients with anogenital warts | Koupidis et al. Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2011 9 67 http www.hqlo.eom content 9 1 67 HEALTH AND QUALITY OF LIFE OUTCOMES RESEARCH Open Access Health related quality of life in patients with anogenital warts 1 1 1 2 2 Sotirios A Koupidis Electra Nicolaidou Maria Hadjivassiliou Stefanos Bellos Petros Skapinakis Christina Stefanaki 1 Helen Papadogeorgakis1 and Andreas Katsambas1 Abstract Introduction The health-related quality-of-life HRQoL instruments are an important tool for the evaluation of medical outcomes. Sexually transmitted diseases STDs influence the patients life. We aimed to evaluate the HRQoL in patients with anogenital warts at the time of and 1 month after the diagnosis. Materials and methods We used the short-form SF -36 questionnaire to compare the HRQoL of 91 patients with anogenital warts to 53 control subjects with the same socioeconomic characteristics. Results There was no statistical difference in the overall HRQoL measurement between the anogenital wart patients and controls. However there was an improvement in the scales of vitality 65.22 15.70 vs. 69.04 14.11 respectively p 0.05 and mental health 65.00 20.09 vs. 69.43 18.08 respectively p 0.05 in anogenital warts patients between the time of diagnosis and 1 month later. Furthermore there was a significant deterioration in the scale of social functioning 73.47 22.18 vs. 72.89 19.28 respectively p 0.05 . The small sample size is a limitation of our study. Conclusions HRQoL does not appear to be influenced in anogenital wart patients as measured by the generic instrument SF-36. It is therefore important to develop specific instruments for the measurement of HRQoL in this group of patients. Introduction Sexually transmitted diseases STDs are a group of diseases that are transmitted through sexual intercourse and are caused by a wide variety of pathogenic microorganisms. Until this day more than 50 micro-organisms have been recognised as a cause of STDs 1 . These diseases comprise a .