tailieunhanh - báo cáo khoa học:" General and disease-specific quality of life in patients with chronic suppurative otitis media a prospective study"

Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: General and disease-specific quality of life in patients with chronic suppurative otitis media a prospective study | Baumann et al. Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2011 9 48 http content 9 1 48 HEALTH AND QUALITY OF LIFE OUTCOMES RESEARCH Open Access General and disease-specific quality of life in patients with chronic suppurative otitis media -a prospective study Ingo Baumann1 Bianca Gerendas1 Peter K Plinkert1 and Mark Praetorius1 2 Abstract Background Chronic suppurative otitis media CSOM is frequently associated with symptoms of inflammation like discharge from the ear or pain. In many cases patients suffer from hearing loss causing communication problems and social withdrawal. The objective of this work was to collect prospective audiological data and data on general and disease-specific quality of life with validated quality of life measurement instruments to assess the impact of the disease on health-related quality of life HR-QOL . Methods 121 patients were included in the study. Patients were clinically examined in the hospital before and 6 months after surgery including audiological testing. They filled in the quality of life questionnaires SF-36 and Chronic Otitis Media Outcome Test 15 COMOT-15 pre-operatively and 6 and 12 months post-operatively respectively. Results Complete data records from 90 patients were available for statistical analysis. Disease-specific HR-QOL in patients with CSOM improved after tympanoplasty in all the scales of the COMOT-15. There was no difference in HR-QOL assessment between patients with mesotympanic respectively epitympanic CSOM. However we did find the outcome to be worse in patients who received revision surgery compared with those receiving primary surgery. Audiometric findings correlated very well with the subscale hearing function from the COMOT-15 questionnaire. General HR-QOL measured with the SF-36 was not significantly changed by tympanoplasty. Conclusions Tympanoplasty did lead to a significant improvement of disease-specific HR-QOL in patients with CSOM while general HR-QOL did not change. Very well .