Quality of Life of the Patients Suffering from Chronic Liver Diseases at the University Health Center Campus of Lome

Aklesso Bagny^1*, Oumboma Bouglouga¹, Late Mawuli Lawson-Ananissoh¹, Angelique Dusabe¹, Yeba Laconism Kaaga¹, Abago Balaka², Mohaman Awalou Djibril², Datouda Redah¹

¹Gastroenterology Department, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Lom, Lomé, Togo.
²Internal Medicine Department, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Lomé, Lomé, Togo.

DOI: 10.4236/ojgas.2015.57015                

Abstract

Objective: Assess the quality of life (QOL) of the patients suffering from chronic liver diseases in our service. Patients and Method: A transversal prospective study conducted at the service of hepatology and gastroenterology at the University health center Campus of Lomé from August 1, 2013 to August 31, 2014. We have used the short form 36 health survey questionnaire (SF-36). Patients of cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma admitted during the said period were selected. Patients suffering from any other chronic diseases such as psychiatric or emotional troubles; linguistic or cognitive deficiencies that could hamper the dependability of the questionnaire were excluded. Results: The average age of the patients was 46 ± 12 years old with a male predominance (sex-ratio: 2.9). Our patients were distributed into 47.4% of cirrhosis and 52.6% of CHC. Those chronic liver diseases etiologies were alcoholic (57%), B viral (66%) and C viral (12.3%). The assessment of QOL showed an overall average score of 76.34 ± 21.1; a mean score of 30.4 ± 86.8 for the physical dimension and 36.5 ± 10.3 for the mental dimension. Patients with viral liver disease had poorer physical summary score (p = 0.000) and poorer mental summary score (p = 0.014) compared to alcoholic patients. Alcohol influenced the physical dimension of the patients (p = 0.000) while the mental dimension was more affected by the age of patients (p = 0.0035). Conclusion: The quality of life is altered by the patients suffering from chronic liver diseases (p = 0035) with regard to our context. This is so in particular with those identified to be viral infected.

Keywords

Chronic Liver Diseases, Quality of Life, Cirrhosis, Hepatocellular Carcinoma, Togo

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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