Measuring health related quality of life for dengue patients in Iquitos, Peru

William H Elson, Amy R Riley-Powell, Amy C Morrison, Esther E Gotlieb, Erik J Groessl, Jhonny J Cordova, J Esther Rios, W Lorena Quiroz, Alfonso S Vizcarra, Robert C Reiner, Christopher M Barker, Gonzalo M Vazquez-Prokopec, Thomas W Scott, Alan L Rothman, John P Elder and Valerie A Paz-Soldan

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2020, vol. 14, issue 7, 1-17

Abstract: Previous studies measuring the health-related quality of life (HRQoL) of individuals with dengue focused on treatment seeking populations. However, the vast majority of global dengue cases are unlikely to be detected by health systems. Representative measurements of HRQoL should therefore include patients with disease not likely to trigger treatment-seeking behavior. This study based in Iquitos, Peru used the Quality of Wellbeing Scale-Self Administered, a survey that enquires about not only physical health, but also psychological health, self-care, mobility, and usual social activities, and rates HRQoL between 0 (death) and 1 (optimum function), to evaluate the impact of dengue on HRQoL. In order to enroll treatment and non treatment-seeking participants, three modalities of participant recruitment were used. In addition to clinic and community-based febrile surveillance, a contact-cluster methodology was also employed to identify infected individuals less likely to seek treatment. We measured changes in HRQoL and identified common areas of health impairment in 73 virologically confirmed dengue cases at 3 time points during the participant’s illness; the early-acute (days 0–6 post symptom onset), late-acute (days 7–20), and convalescent illness phases (days 21 +). Participants reported HRQoL related impairments at significantly higher frequency during the early-acute versus convalescent illness phase (Fisher’s exact: P

Date: 2020
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