Quality of Life
Research June 2016, Volume 25, Issue 6,
pp 1527–1536
Kadir Çeviker Email
author, Şahin Şahinalp, Erdinç Çiçek,
Deniz Demir, Dinçer Uysal, Rasih Yazkan, Abdullah Akpınar,
Turhan Yavuz, Kadir Çeviker
Abstract
Purpose The main purpose of this study was to
evaluate the influence of any of the four domains of the QoL score in CVD patients of classes C0–C4 and to
analyze the correlation between the QoL and types of treatment modalities, and
an additional aim of the present study was to compare QoL levels of patients
with CVD and healthy participants and was
to examine the factors associated with QoL in CVD patients.
Methods \The sample was composed of
501 patients with primary superficial venous reflux (28.5 % male and
71.5 % female) who answered 100 % of the questions in the World
Health Organization Quality of Life (WHOQoL-BREF) questionnaire. After a
clinical and duplex examination, the patients were categorized as C0–C4,
according to the CEAP classification. The relationships between WHOQoL-BREF
domains and gender, age, occupation, BMI, the clinical classes of the CEAP
classification and four different treatment modalities according to guideline
were analyzed.
Results For the
WHOQOL-BREF test battery, the patients with CVD had worse values, as compared with
the control group participants. The differences were significant for the
physical (77.81 ± 12.75 vs. 59.18 ± 12.90, p < 0.001),
the psychological (74.78 ± 11.37 vs. 60.21 ± 14.70, p < 0.001),
the social relationships (76.56 ± 13.56 vs. 63.07 ± 21.37, p < 0.001)
and the environmental (70.27 ± 13.36 vs. 50.16 ± 11.39, p < 0.001)
health scores. The patients with CVD had worse WHOQOL-BREF scores at
initial, compared with the 6-month follow-up scores.
Conclusion: This study
shows that in spite of undergoing therapy, the subsequent QoL scores did not improve
significantly, indicating that CVD continued to negatively affect the patient’s life.
