Investigation on quality of life of patients with Meniere’s disease and its influencing factors
Li Cuijuan
Li Kali
Hu Tingbao
Abstract：Objective:To investigate the status of quality of life of patients with Meniere’s disease(MD)and to analyze its influencing factors.Methods:A total of 94 patients with Meniere’s disease that were accepting treat-ment in our hospital received a cross sectional survey.The investigation tools included the general condition of the demographic questionnaire and the short form(SF 36)health survey questionnaire.Results:The scores of all dimensions of SF 36 in patients with Meniere’s Disease were all lower than those of the normal standard. The single factor analysis showed that the MD patients’related quality of life of physical health was associated with the gender,age,marital status,duration of disease,place of residence and working situation.While their re-lated quality of life of mental health was associated with the gender,age,marital status,duration of disease,edu-cation level,working situation and place of residence.The multi factor regression analysis showed that the MD patients’related quality of life of physical health was associated with the gender,age,duration of disease and working situation,while their related quality of life of mental health was associated with the gender,age,dura-tion of disease,education level and working situation.Conclusion:The quality of life in patients with Meniere’s disease was obviously lower than that of normal people.The gender,age,duration of disease and working situa-tion were the influencing factors of their related quality of life of physical health.While the gender,age,duration of disease,education level and working situation were the influencing factors of their related quality of life of mental health.
Keywords：Meniere’s diseasequality of lifeinfluencing factors
Publication Date：2015-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：4( 1571-1574 )