| Keywords |
QOL(quality of life) ; Tuberculosis patients |
| Abstract |
The purpose of this study was to find the influencing factors on ‘quality of life(QOL)’ among patients with tuberculosis. A questionnaire survey was peformed at a public hospital in Seoul from January 1 to August 31, 2007. Total 168 data were analyzed with SPSS 12.0. The average age of participants was 44.65 years old and their average monthly income was ￦840,000, and 21.7% of them only had user of community health center and they had almost 2 kinds of diseases. Generally, patients had low level of accessibility to medical health care, social network, and TB knowledge. The preceding factor of QOL among TB patients was medical care, and intermediate factors of it were number of diseases and health protection which was the powerful sub-domain of health beliefs. These results suggested that two types of pathways were found : 1. medical care→number of diseases↔QOL, 2. medical care→ health protection ↔QOL. But It is desirable that these pathways will be testified by another methods. Therefore we need TB management strategies to be reduced number of diseases and to be enhanced health protection as a health belief about tuberculosis. |