Investigation of quality of life of recovered patients with depression and its influential factors / 中华行为医学与脑科学杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To investigate the health-related quality of life(HRQOL)of the recovered patients with depression and its influential factors.Methods From March 2008 to April 2009,150 depressive patients andergoing the following up treatment were recruited,and finally 124 patients rocovered,and quality of life for patients recovered were compared to published norms for the general Chinese people.The general demography material seale.Hamilton Depression Scale(HAMD),Hamilton Anxiety Scale(HAMA),personality traits(Eysenck personality Inventory-EQP)the short form 36 item(SF-36)questionnaire and social support scale(SSS)were applied to an subjects.The SPSS 13.0 software for data processing,the group t test and the multiple linear regression analysis was adopted.Results ①The average score of seven domains of quality of life(RP,BP,GH,VT,SF,RE,MH )for the recovered patients were better than that of the pre-treatment patients(P<0.01),except the PF(89.23±14.09,87.23±16.81,t=1.044,P>0.05).But the average score of seven domains of quality of life for the re-covered patients were worse than that of the healthy people(P<0.01),except the PF(89.23±14.09,89.01±15.73,t=1.266,P>0.05).②The quality of life 0f the recovered patients remarkably related with the anxiety level, neuroticism, extraversion, recurrent depression,economic condition and social support(P<0. 01) . Conclusion The recovered depressive patient s health-related quality of life were improved significantly afer treatment, what were influenced by neuroticism,extraversion,anxiety as a trait,recurrent depression,economic condition and social support.Above mentioned factors should be taken into account when rehabilitation.