Assessing health‐related quality of life in patients with inflammatory bowel disease in Zhejiang, China

Yunxian Zhou, Weihong Ren, Elizabeth Jan Irvine and Dagan Yang

Journal of Clinical Nursing, 2010, vol. 19, issue 1‐2, 79-88

Abstract: Aims. The aim of this study was to assess health‐related quality of life in patients with inflammatory bowel disease in Zhejiang, Mainland China. Background. The incidence of inflammatory bowel disease in China is believed to be low but has been increasing in the past decade. The quality of life of Chinese patients with inflammatory bowel disease is unknown. Design. A cross‐sectional study. Methods. The study was conducted in 92 patients with inflammatory bowel disease in Zhejiang, China, 52 with ulcerative colitis and 40 with Crohn’s disease. Health‐related quality of life was measured by the Chinese version of the Inflammatory Bowel Disease Questionnaire and Short Form‐36, respectively. Disease activity was assessed by the Walmsley and Harvey–Bradshaw simple indices for ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease, respectively. Demographic and clinical variables were also recorded. Short Form‐36 data from the study sample were compared with a reference population of 1688 Chinese people residing in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China. Results. No significant health‐related quality of life differences were found between patients with ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease (p > 0·05). Pooled data showed that inflammatory bowel disease patients with active disease had significantly lower scores for all eight dimensions of Short Form‐36 compared to those in remission (p

Date: 2010
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