The survey of quality of life and sleep among pediatric patients with the end-staged liver diseases / 中国实用护理杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective@#This research was designed to survey the quality of life (QOL) and sleep of the pediatric patients with end-staged liver diseases.@*Methods@#The Pediatric Quality of Life InventoryTM and the Pediatric Sleep Questionnaire were adapted to develop the questionnaire of the survey. The patients of first half year of 2017 were investigated.@*Results@#The median age was 8 month, and median height was 66 cm, while the median weight was 7.45 kg respectively. The median score of QOL was 67.4, and the median score of sleep was 0.22, while the median score of indirect sleep was 0.33 respectively.@*Conclusions@#The QOL of pediatric patients with end-staged liver diseases was relatively low, and the age, monthly income, weight, height were the impact factor of it. The quality of sleep was relatively good, and "whether having the insurance or not" is the impact factor of it.