title: Health-related quality of life and chronic venous leg ulceration: part 1.
abstract: Leg ulceration is a debilitating condition characterized by long periods of ulceration and a high incidence of recurrence. The quality of life of sufferers is compromised by many issues including pain and social isolation. Day-to-day care focuses predominantly on the provision of wound care, often with limited attention to the wide-ranging effects that the ulceration poses to the life of the sufferer. Part 1 of this two-part series provides a review of qualitative studies that explore the health-related quality of life of patients with chronic venous leg ulceration. Part 2 will be published in the June 2010 Wound Care Alliance supplement.
authors.affiliation: Keele University. j.green@nur.keele.ac.uk
authors.forename: Julie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Green
authors.forename: Rebecca
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Jester
mesh_terms: D000203:Activities of Daily Living; D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D002908:Chronic Disease; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D011788:Quality of Life; D012917:Social Adjustment; D014647:Varicose Ulcer / Q000451:nursing / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000523:psychology