Quality of life in peptic ulcer patients referring to Al-Zahra hospital of Isfahan, Iran.
OBJECTIVE
The purpose of this study was to determine quality of life in peptic ulcer patients referring to Al-Zahra hospital of Isfahan.


BACKGROUND
Peptic ulcer disease (PUD) is one of the most prevalent diseases. Its prevalence is 6-15% and about 10% of people experience its symptom in their life. PUD can have a considerable impact on patients' quality of life (QOL).


METHODS
This descriptive- analytic survey was done on 93 randomly patients referred to Al-Zahra hospital of Isfahan city in Iran. Data gathering was done via questionnaire including five domains: physical, psychological, social, behavioral and economical. For data analysis, t-test, Pearson correlation and ANOVA test were used.


RESULTS
93 patients with mean age of 38.54 years, including 43 (46.2%) women and 54 (53.8%) men, were studied. There was a negative significant between quality of life and age and between disease duration and psychological, economical domains and between the mean of QOL scores in physical and social domains with the number of cigarette per day, also there was significant relation between social domain and gender, and physical, psychological and behavioral domains with marital status; Physical, social domains with smoking. Also there was a negative significant between physical, social and behavioral domains with years of smoking.


CONCLUSIONS
Study results showed that quality of life is in a relatively good level among patients, thus some diseases such as peptic ulcer can effect on quality of life. So, treatment and prevention of these diseases may improve their quality of life.
Proteomics Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Asghar Ashrafi
AA
Hafez
The Student's Research Committee, Department of Public Health, Faculty of Health, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Elahe
E
Tavassoli
Department of Biostatistics, Faculty of Health, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran.
Akbar
A
Hasanzadeh
Department of Health Education, Bushehr University of Medical Sciences, Bushehr, Iran.
Mahnoush
M
Reisi
Department of Health Education, Bushehr University of Medical Sciences, Bushehr, Iran.
Seyed Homamodin
SH
Javadzade
Faculty of Medicine, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran.
Masoumeh
M
Imanzad
Patients; Peptic ulcer; Quality of life