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Assessment of Quality of life among patients with hip osteoarthritis

. Usman Iftikhar, Farooq islam, Faisal Shahbaz, Gulraiz Enderyas, Asim Raza and Sobia azam


Abstract

This study's major goal was to evaluate the quality of life (QOL) of people with hip osteoarthritis. 196 hip osteoarthritic volunteers, ranging in age from 45 to 80, participated in an observational cross-sectional research. Between May and August 2022, participants were chosen using convenient sampling from the District headquarters in Gujranwala, the Medical Care Hospital in Gujranwala, and the Civil Hospital in Wazirabad. SF-36 questionnaire was used for the assessment of QOL’ in this 0 indicates the poor whereas 100 indicates higher quality of life. All information were put and analyzed by SPSS Version 24. Out of 196 patients, 159(81.10%) were female. Segments of QOL, physical functioning (31.13±9.73),role limitations due to physical health (29.33±8.98), pain (28.59±10.25), general health (17.47±7.35), social functioning (18.09±9.86), emotional well-being (37.75±14.28), energy (39.51±14.55) and role limitations due to emotional problem (22.60±9.31) was observed respectively. Findings of this study was concluded that energy, emotional well-being and physical functioning  noted high score as compare to other segments of quality of life however in segments; general health and social functioning were very compromised and poor quality of life with lower score .

                                                

Index Terms: Quality of life, SF-36 questionnaire, cross sectional study, hip osteoarthritis.

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