Investigation of quality of life of patients with asthma and analysis of its related factors / 中国实用护理杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To explore the quality of life and its related factors of patients with asthma. Methods 60 asthma patients were assessed by Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression(HAMD),Hamilton Rating Scale for Anxiety(HAMA)and the Short-Form-36 Health Survey(SF-36). Results Except physical functioning (PF) domain, the SF-36 score of asthma patients was significantly lower than that of normal. The illness course longer than 4 years had lower score, so did the quality of life. The SF-36 score of asthma patients with depression symptom and anxiety symptom was lower than those without depression symptom and anxiety symptom. Conclusions The asthma patients' quality of life are worse than those of normal, especially the patients with long illness course, depression symptom and anxiety symptom.