Background
Methods
Patients
Measure
Survey method
Statistical analysis
Results
Socio-demographic characteristics of the study population
Characteristics | Chronic gastritis (N = 124) | Peptic ulcer (N = 120) | Total (N = 244) | |||
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Gender
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Male | 60 | 48.4 | 82 | 68.3 | 142 | 58.2 |
Female | 64 | 51.6 | 38 | 31.7 | 102 | 41.8 |
Marital status
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Married | 103 | 83.1 | 105 | 87.5 | 208 | 85.2 |
Other | 21 | 16.9 | 15 | 12.5 | 36 | 14.8 |
Age
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<30 | 28 | 22.6 | 18 | 15 | 46 | 18.9 |
30-39 | 32 | 25.8 | 19 | 15.8 | 51 | 20.9 |
40-49 | 17 | 13.7 | 27 | 22.5 | 44 | 18.0 |
50-59 | 23 | 18.5 | 32 | 26.7 | 55 | 22.5 |
≥60 | 24 | 19.4 | 24 | 20.0 | 48 | 19.7 |
43.7 ± 15.6 | 46.7 ± 15.2 | |||||
Ethnicity
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Han | 108 | 87.1 | 104 | 86.7 | 212 | 86.9 |
Other | 16 | 12.9 | 16 | 13.3 | 32 | 13.1 |
Education
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Primary school | 24 | 19.4 | 21 | 17.5 | 45 | 18.4 |
High school | 57 | 46.0 | 62 | 51.7 | 119 | 48.8 |
College/higher | 43 | 34.7 | 37 | 30.8 | 80 | 32.8 |
Occupation
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Worker | 36 | 29.0 | 46 | 38.3 | 82 | 33.6 |
Farmer | 14 | 11.3 | 14 | 11.7 | 28 | 11.5 |
Teacher | 10 | 8.1 | 14 | 11.7 | 24 | 9.8 |
Office-bearer | 25 | 20.2 | 18 | 15 | 43 | 17.6 |
Others | 39 | 31.5 | 28 | 23.3 | 67 | 27.5 |
Perceived income
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Poor | 25 | 20.2 | 35 | 29.2 | 60 | 24.6 |
Fair | 87 | 70.2 | 71 | 59.2 | 158 | 64.8 |
High | 12 | 9.7 | 14 | 11.7 | 26 | 10.7 |
Medical security
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Self-paid | 51 | 41.1 | 41 | 34.2 | 92 | 37.7 |
Partly-pay | 7 | 5.6 | 6 | 5 | 13 | 5.3 |
Public insurance | 66 | 53.2 | 73 | 60.8 | 139 | 57.0 |
HRQOL comparisons across diseases
Domains | At admission (n = 244) | At discharge (n = 206) | ||||
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PF
| 78.25 ± 22.97 | 71.22 ± 28.91 | 2.10* | 87.65 ± 16.71 | 83.81 ± 16.63 | 1.64 |
RP
| 33.67 ± 39.69 | 41.60 ± 41.84 | -1.52 | 30.77 ± 38.51 | 24.75 ± 34.91 | 1.17 |
BP
| 52.27 ± 20.86 | 54.93 ± 24.26 | -0.92 | 51.92 ± 20.02 | 52.65 ± 22.56 | -0.24 |
GH
| 43.06 ± 19.67 | 50.29 ± 19.87 | -2.86* | 51.25 ± 18.71 | 55.59 ± 18.05 | -1.69 |
VT
| 49.40 ± 21.10 | 58.29 ± 21.79 | -3.24* | 55.14 ± 19.31 | 62.28 ± 15.84 | -2.89* |
SF
| 70.79 ± 23.52 | 75.56 ± 21.44 | -1.65 | 74.15 ± 21.70 | 75.93 ± 18.64 | -0.63 |
RE
| 38.98 ± 41.80 | 50.42 ± 40.91 | -2.16* | 46.15 ± 41.88 | 44.77 ± 40.76 | 0.24 |
MH
| 60.03 ± 20.39 | 70.30 ± 17.40 | -4.22* | 67.73 ± 18.05 | 73.69 ± 14.05 | -2.64* |
PCS
| 93.67 ± 27.10 | 95.22 ± 31.56 | -0.41 | 103.82 ± 24.09 | 103.35 ± 21.62 | 0.14 |
MCS
| 56.89 ± 18.51 | 65.66 ± 15.65 | -3.98* | 63.19 ± 17.07 | 68.66 ± 12.05 | -2.65* |
HRQOL comparisons between patients and population norms
HRQOL change after treatments
Domains | Chronic gastritis | Peptic ulcer | ||||
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DIF () | CR (%) | SRM | DIF () | CR (%) | SRM | |
Physical functioning (PF) | 10.10 ± 15.80 | 12.93 | 0.64* | 11.25 ± 23.47 | 15.53 | 0.48* |
Role-physical (RP) | -5.29 ± 26.91# | -14.67 | 0.20* | -15.75 ± 38.21# | -38.89 | 0.41* |
Bodily pain (BP) | -0.63 ± 15.90 | -1.21 | 0.04 | 1.82 ± 19.76 | -3.36 | 0.09 |
General health (GH) | 7.26 ± 11.98 | 16.50 | 0.61* | 5.69 ± 13.33 | 11.39 | 0.43* |
Vitality (VT) | 4.23 ± 9.57 | 8.31 | 0.44* | 3.66 ± 15.94 | 6.25 | 0.23* |
Social functioning (SF) | 3.53 ± 15.03 | 4.99 | 0.23* | -0.22 ± 14.24 | -0.29 | 0.02 |
Role-emotional (RE) | 3.21 ± 30.29# | 7.46 | 0.11 | -6.27 ± 37.63# | -12.26 | 0.17 |
Mental health (MH) | 7.12 ± 11.37# | 11.74 | 0.63* | 3.61 ± 12.52# | 5.15 | 0.29* |
PCS
| 9.61 ± 14.63 | 10.13 | 0.66* | 8.05 ± 21.38 | 8.46 | 0.38* |
MCS
| 5.33 ± 8.69 | 9.21 | 0.61* | 2.93 ± 10.10 | 4.46 | 0.29* |
Factors with impact on HRQOL
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Physical Component Summary (PCS) | Constant | 123.78 | 7.93 | 15.61 | 0.000 |
Marriage =1 (married) | 11.95 | 5.47 | 2.13 | 0.030 | |
Marriage = 2 (other)
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Education = 1 (primary school) | -11.70 | 5.35 | -2.19 | 0.030 | |
Education = 2 (high school) | -1.63 | 4.05 | -0.40 | 0.688 | |
Education = 3 (college or higher)
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Perceived income = 1 (poor) | -17.39 | 6.61 | -2.63 | 0.009 | |
Perceived income = 2 (fair) | -7.56 | 5.93 | -1.28 | 0.203 | |
Perceived income = 3 (high)
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Age | -0.60 | 0.13 | -4.66 | 0.000 | |
Adjusted R Square = 0.14 F = 7.64, P = 0.000 | |||||
Mental Component Summary (MCS) | Constant | 68.94 | 4.05 | 17.93 | 0.000 |
Gender =1 (male) | 7.78 | 2.20 | 3.53 | 0.000 | |
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Education = 1 (primary school) | -5.85 | 3.01 | -1.96 | 0.050 | |
Education = 2 (high school) | 2.38 | 2.43 | 0.98 | 0.328 | |
Education = 3 (college or higher)
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Perceived income = 1 (poor) | -14.56 | 3.38 | -3.79 | 0.000 | |
Perceived income = 2 (fair) | -7.66 | 3.45 | -2.22 | 0.027 | |
Perceived income = 3 (high)
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Disease = 1 (chronic gastritis) | -7.48 | 2.14 | -3.50 | 0.001 | |
Disease = 2 (peptic ulcer)
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Adjusted R Square = 0.17 F = 9.09, P = 0.000 |
Domains | Factors | B | Std. error |
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Physical Component Summary (PCS) | Constant | 6.44 | 4.19 | 1.54 | 0.126 |
Marriage =1 (married) | -8.15 | 3.94 | -2.07 | 0.040 | |
Marriage = 2 (other)
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Occupation =1 (worker) | 4.71 | 2.69 | 1.75 | 0.080 | |
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Age | 0.17 | 0.09 | 1.82 | 0.070 | |
Adjusted R Square = 0.03 F = 2.92, P = 0.035 | |||||
Mental Component Summary (MCS) | Constant | 9.96 | 1.83 | 5.45 | 0.000 |
Gender =1 (male) | -2.54 | 1.30 | -1.97 | 0.050 | |
Gender = 2 (female)
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Marriage =1 (married) | -5.09 | 1.80 | -2.82 | 0.005 | |
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Adjusted R Square = 0.05, F = 5.89, P = 0.003 |