1. Health-related quality of life assessed by Gout Impact Scale (GIS) in Chinese patients with gout.
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Zhou, Wei, Zhu, Jinjin, Guo, Jiaxin, Chen, Huamao, Zhang, Xiaomei, Gu, Zhifeng, Zhou, Fengyan, and Dong, Chen
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CHINESE people ,QUALITY of life ,GOUT ,PATIENT satisfaction ,DEMOGRAPHIC characteristics ,FIBROMYALGIA - Abstract
The Gout Impact Scale (GIS) is a disease-specific health-related quality of life (HR-QoL) measurement for patients with gout. This study aimed to investigate the quality of life in Chinese patients with gout and potential risk factors for poorer HR-QoL by GIS. Adults with gout from February 2017 to February 2019 were invited to complete a questionnaire containing the GIS, social demographic characteristics, clinical information and gout-specific questions. Pearson/Spearman correlation and linear regression were used to analyze the data. A total of 413 patients were included in the analysis (mean age, 51.85 years; 96.4% male). The mean (SD) score of GIS total was 56.79 ± 15.45. Worse gout-specific HR-QoL was associated with anxiety (p <.05), depression (p <.05) and fatigue (p <.05). The effectiveness and global satisfaction of Treatment Satisfaction Questionnaire for Medication (TSQM) were negatively related to each dimension of GIS. Age (B = −0.251, p =.013), fatigue (B = 1.850, p <.001) and depression (B = 9.068, p =.042) were independent predictors of GIS total score. Gout-specific HR-QoL is impaired by social demographic and clinical characteristics, highlighting the importance of psychological factors (fatigue and depression) and patient-reported outcomes (patients' satisfaction and confidence in gout treatment). These findings suggest that more studies should focus on disease-specific HR-QoL. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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