Authors: José Antonio Becerra Fontal Joan Bagó Granell Josep Garré Olmo Ramón Roig Busquets Francisco Peris Prats Carlos Villanueva Leal
Publish Date: 2012/12/24
Volume: 22, Issue: 5, Pages: 1002-1009
Abstract
Despite the high prevalence of musculoskeletal diseases in Spain there are few data about how these conditions affect the quality of life of individuals The objective of this study was to assess the quality of life QOL of patients candidate for orthopedic surgical treatment using an age–gender adjusted method of QOL scoresThe SF36 Health Survey was administered to 538 patients candidate for surgery between surgical treatment was classified in four groups lumbar disease cervical disease knee arthroplasty and hip arthroplasty Associated morbidities were collected retrospectively for all cases using the Charlson comorbidity index Univariate bivariate and multivariate statistical analyses were done to compare the four groups to each other to the general population mean and to the age and genderadjusted population mean234 men and 304 women whose mean age was 5878 years 19–89 were assessed Patients candidate for some kind or lumbar surgery had the worst scores in all physical and mental scales as compared to the other disease groups Patients candidate for knee arthroplasty had the best quality of life scores in all scales compared to the other disease groups Medical conditions had no influence over the summary measuresPresenting the results of SF36 in standard deviations from the age and genderadjusted population mean T values leads to a better appreciation of the differences between the various diseases Patients candidate for surgery of the lumbar spine had a worse QOL while the QOL in patients candidate for knee arthroplasty was the least affected
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