Health-related Quality of Life ( HRQL ) in Tuberculosis Patients With and Without Diabetes Mellitus

We aimed to investigate describe health-related quality of life (HRQL) of tuberculosis patients with and without diabetes mellitus. Participants were diagnosed and treated at Qingdao Chest Hospital between April and August 2015. A total of 131 patients were eligible in the study and 50 of them were suffering from tuberculosis (TB) and diabetes mellitus (DM) simultaneously, 81 were TB only. Chinese version 2 of the Short Form-36 (SF-36 v2) questionnaire was used to evaluate HRQL in the patients. This survey found that most of patients in TB-DM patients group reached dietary diversification. The types of food intake results show that scores of all the eight SF36 dimensions, and their physical and mental summary scores, were significantly lower than the Chinese general population. Except for role physical (RP) and mental health (MH), the scores of TB patients with DM (TB-DM) were lower than TB patients without DM. Multivariable analysis showed that age and occupation were the factors affecting their physical health, and the factors affecting their mental health were the situation of initial treatment, occupation and average monthly income.

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