Quality of life in children with thalassemia major following up at a tertiary care center in India (GOTQoL)

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dc.contributor.authorAnkush, Ankushen_US
dc.contributor.authorDias, Amiten_US
dc.contributor.authorSilveira, M. P.en_US
dc.contributor.authorTalwadker, Yashen_US
dc.contributor.authorSouza, Joachim Piedadeen_US
dc.date.accessioned2020-09-24T07:42:49Z
dc.date.available2020-09-24T07:42:49Z
dc.date.issued2019-01
dc.description.abstractBackground: This study aims to measure the quality of life (QoL) scores in children with thalassemia major following up at a tertiary care center for routine blood transfusion in comparison to healthy children.Methods: A case control study design was adopted, wherein on the QoL of 36 children with thalassemia in the age group 5 to 18 following up for blood transfusion at Goa Medical College, was measured using PedsQL' 4.0. This was compared to the QoL in age and gender matched healthy children from a government school. A higher score on a subscale indicates better quality of life on this instrument.Results: The children with thalassemia had lower mean scores on physical (67.85 vs 84.24; P <0.001), social (78.34 vs 87.95; P=0.002) and school (62.64 vs 79.48; P <0.001) functioning subscales compared to the healthy children. They also had lower mean psychosocial summary score (73.32 vs 82.01; P=0.003) and total health summary score (71.95 vs 82.57; P <0.001). The physical functioning subscale had significantly higher score among the children who were on chelation and also among the ones whose parents reported as being informed about the condition.Conclusions: The children with thalassemia have poor QoL in physical, social and school functioning domains. Improvement in QoL requires consolidated efforts on part of doctors, parents, school authorities and policy makers. These patients should be provided with low cost-effective chelation therapy. The parents need to be counselled about this disease by the treating team.en_US
dc.identifier.affiliationsDepartment of Radiodiagnosis, Goa Medical College, Goa, Indiaen_US
dc.identifier.affiliationsDepartment of Preventive and Social Medicine, Goa Medical College, Goa, Indiaen_US
dc.identifier.affiliationsDepartment of Pediatrics, Goa Medical College, Goa, Indiaen_US
dc.identifier.affiliationsDepartment of Cardiology, Hinduja Hospital, Mumbai, Maharashtra, Indiaen_US
dc.identifier.affiliationsDepartment of Medicine, SNMC, Bagalkot, Karnataka, Indiaen_US
dc.identifier.citationAnkush Ankush, Dias Amit, Silveira M. P., Talwadker Yash, Souza Joachim Piedade. Quality of life in children with thalassemia major following up at a tertiary care center in India (GOTQoL). International Journal of Contemporary Pediatrics. 2019 Jan; 6(1): 168-175en_US
dc.identifier.issn2349-3283
dc.identifier.issn2349-3291
dc.identifier.placeIndiaen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://imsear.searo.who.int/handle/123456789/203866
dc.languageenen_US
dc.publisherMedip Academyen_US
dc.relation.issuenumber1en_US
dc.relation.volume6en_US
dc.source.urihttps://dx.doi.org/10.18203/2349-3291.ijcp20185203en_US
dc.subjectGoaen_US
dc.subjectIndiaen_US
dc.subjectPedsQL 4.0en_US
dc.subjectQuality of Lifeen_US
dc.subjectThalassemia majoren_US
dc.titleQuality of life in children with thalassemia major following up at a tertiary care center in India (GOTQoL)en_US
dc.typeJournal Articleen_US
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