Health Related Quality of Life of Urban Young Adults Misusing Analgesics Participating in a Controlled, Cross-sectional Study in East Sikkim, North East India
Published: March 1, 2018 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.7860/JCDR/2018/30963.11315
Deepanjana Dass, Sunil Kumar Pandey
1. Research Scholar, Department of Pharmacology, Sikkim Manipal Institute of Medical Sciences, Gangtok, Sikkim, India.
2. Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Gayatri Vidya Parishad Institute of Health Care and Medical Technology, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India.
Correspondence
Dr. Sunil Kumar Pandey,
Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Gayatri Vidya Parishad Institute of Health Care and Medical Technology,
Visakhapatnam-530048, Andhra Pradesh, India.
E-mail: sunilmanipal@gmail.com
Introduction: A great deal of interest exists in assessing the health related Quality of Life (QoL) as an important aspect of treatment effectiveness with prescription drug misuse. The SF-36 Health Survey is a self-report measure assessing subjective health status along with physical and mental health domains.
Aim: To evaluate how analgesic misuse affects both physical and emotional QoL in an urban area of Sikkim in a young adult population (15-40 years of age) of either sex.
Materials and Methods: This study was a cross-sectional general population survey. Proposed study site included an urban area in East Sikkim. A pre-devised questionnaire of SF-36 was administered to 700 subjects. Data were statistically analysed using Statistical Package for Social Sciences software version 20.0.
Results: Significant difference among analgesic misusers and non misusers in measures like general health (?2=17.197, df=2, p<0.001), compared to one year ago, health condition now (?2=8.379, df=2, p=0.015), emotional health-depression (?2=13.811, df=2, p=0.001), emotional health-full of life (?2=8.998, df=2, p=0.011), emotional health-felt dumped (?2=6.065, df=2, p=0.048), emotional health-energy (?2=13.190, df=2, p=0.001), emotional health-worn out (?2=6.325, df=2, p=0.042) was found.
Conclusion: This study could identify a subset of participants in their youth with current pain and several measures of low QoL in emotional domain like depression, full of life, energy; felt dumped, worn out in the past four weeks in subjects misusing analgesics. Low QoL also identifies possibility of future onset of mental and psychiatric impairments.
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