Quality of life in Turkish patients with Familial Mediterranean Fever: Association with fatigue, psychological status, disease severity and other clinical parameters
| Autor: | Yeşim Garip, Yasemin Pekin Doğan, Tuba Güler, Fulya Dortbas |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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030203 arthritis & rheumatology
lcsh:Immunologic diseases. Allergy medicine.medical_specialty Hamilton depression scale Turkish business.industry Familial Mediterranean fever medicine.disease MEFV language.human_language 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Rheumatology Psychological status Quality of life Disease severity Internal medicine language Physical therapy Medicine 030212 general & internal medicine business lcsh:RC581-607 Depression (differential diagnoses) |
| Zdroj: | Egyptian Rheumatologist, Vol 40, Iss 2, Pp 117-121 (2018) |
| ISSN: | 1110-1164 |
| Popis: | Aim of the work: To evaluate the quality of life (QoL) in Familial Mediterranean Fever (FMF) patients, and determine its association with fatigue, depression, disease severity and other clinical parameters. Patients and methods: Sixty FMF patients were included. QoL was assessed by Short Form-36 (SF-36), depression by Hamilton Depression Scale (HDS), and fatigue by Fatigue severity scale (FSS). Disease severity score and Mutations of the Mediterranean fever (MEFV) gene were assessed. Results: The mean age of patients was 33.73 ± 9.81 years and disease duration 14.6 ± 12.1 years. They were 35 females and 25 males. FMF patients scored significantly higher in FSS (29.9 ± 17.6) and HDS (15.1 ± 8.5) compared to the control (10.6 ± 7.1 and 6.3 ± 9.4; p |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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