Health-related quality of life and its determinants among ambulatory patients with epilepsy at Ambo General Hospital, Ethiopia: Using WHOQOL-BREF

Gosaye Mekonen Tefera, Worku Asefa Megersa and Diriba Alemayehu Gadisa

PLOS ONE, 2020, vol. 15, issue 1, 1-16

Abstract: Background: Health‐related quality of life (HRQOL) is used as a measure of treatment outcomes, in addition to seizure control. Hence, the study was aimed to assess HRQOL and its determinants among adult patients with epilepsy (PWE). Method: A hospital-based cross-sectional study was conducted from April 20 to June 27/2019, through patient interviews and patient’s chart review (medication and clinical information). Data were analyzed using SPSS version 20. The psychometric property was done using Cronbach’s alpha test value of >0.7 as accepted internal consistency and Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin (KMO) measure of sample size adequacy value of ≥0.5 as acceptable construct validity, for Afaan Oromo version questionnaire. Multivariate linear logistic regression analysis was done to find predictors for the HRQOL score. Results: Of 121 PWE included in the study, 24.4% had overall poor HRQOL with the overall mean ±SD score of 56.42±10.96. The predictors for low overall HRQOL score were: presence of co-morbidity (B = -5.620, SE = 1.531, p

Date: 2020
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