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Quality of Life Research
Gepubliceerd in: Quality of Life Research 1/2011

01-02-2011

Quality of life and depressive symptoms in Chagas disease patients

Auteurs: Yaeko Ozaki, Maria Elena Guariento, Eros Antonio de Almeida

Gepubliceerd in: Quality of Life Research | Uitgave 1/2011

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Abstract

Background

Besides the typical organic aspects of Chagas disease, the patients need to face physical, psychological, social and economic difficulties, which can compromise their quality of life. Consequently they may develop feelings of sadness, grief and loss, and depressive symptoms.

Methods

This study assessed the quality of life and depressive symptoms in 110 Chagas disease patients using WHOQOL-BREF for measuring the quality of life; also it was used Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) for depressive symptom evaluation.

Results

Among all patients, 51% were women; 42.5% considered their quality of life as positive and 40.9% presented depressive symptoms. Chagas disease clinical form distribution was: cardiac 49.09%, indeterminate 26.36%, digestive 12.73%, and mixed 11.82%. There was no significant difference comparing the depressive symptom intensity on gender, age and marital status, although there was a significant difference comparing depressive symptoms in indeterminate clinical form patients with others. All domains of WHOQOL-BREF showed significant correlation coefficients (Pearson).

Conclusions

At digestive form it was reported minor scores in the quality of life domains and greater ones on depressive symptom levels. There was a negative correlation between BDI and WHOQOL-BREF, suggesting that, among Chagas disease patients, the higher is the quality of life the lower is the intensity of depressive symptoms.
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Metagegevens
Titel
Quality of life and depressive symptoms in Chagas disease patients
Auteurs
Yaeko Ozaki
Maria Elena Guariento
Eros Antonio de Almeida
Publicatiedatum
01-02-2011
Uitgeverij
Springer Netherlands
Gepubliceerd in
Quality of Life Research / Uitgave 1/2011
Print ISSN: 0962-9343
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-2649
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11136-010-9726-1

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