IJSR - International Journal of Scientific Research

Dr Jasif Nisar; Dr Salma Gull; Dr Zahoor Ahmad Pal; Prof.Dr Rauf Ahmad

Volume : VI, Issue : XII, December - 2017

STUDY OF GENERAL QUALITY OF LIFE OUTCOME AFTER SURGICAL INTERVENTION IN PATIENTS WITH CHRONIC SUPPURATIVE OTITIS MEDIA–TERTIARY HOSPITAL BASED STUDY

Dr Jasif Nisar, Dr Salma Gull, Dr Zahoor Ahmad Pal, Prof. Dr Rauf Ahmad

Abstract :

Background: Chronic Suppurative Otitis Media (CSOM) affects approximately 2% of the population, in South East Asia CSOM has a prevalence of approximately 5.2% in the general populationHeå loss is the world’s most common disability, affecting more than 5% of the global population (360 million people), with over half of these patients resident in low– and middle–income nations. Therefore, it is important to have effective measures of quality of life (QoL) and health status to evaluate the burden of disease and effectiveness of treatments.

OBJECTIVE

To compare General quality of life in patients with CSOM before and after ear surgery using SF–36 questionnaire.

MATERIALS AND METHODS

This prospective study was conducted in the department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck, Srinagar. All those patients who were treated at the Department and fulfilling the inclusion criteria were included in the study.The measurement of general health–related QOL life was performed using two instruments (1) Short Form 36 (SF–36).Data was collected at three times of measurement (TM): pre–operatively (TM1), 6 months (TM2), and 12 months after surgery (TM3) using SF–36 questionnaire.Tympanoplasty,Canal wall–up,canal wall–down mastoidectomy ,and ossicular reconstruction was done.

RESULTS: Our study group comprised of 213 patients with majority of patients 157 (73.70%) were in the age group 18 to 30 years .Of 213 patients 129 (60.56%) were females and 84 (39.43) were males.General quality of life using SF –36 was seen improved after surgical intervention in all patients with CSOM with total mean (79.51, 83.59, 86.89 preoperatively, at 6 months, at 1 year respectively) with p–value <0.001

CONCLUSION

Based on the observations of our study we concluded that General health related quality of life measured with SF–36 improved after surgical intervention at 6 months and 1year.Comparison of SF–36 questionnaire values (mean) preoperatively, at 6 months and at 1 year was done which showed improvement at 6 months and then at 1 year of follow up between its sub–scales with p–value <0.001.