Dipendra Kumar Yadav|N. Shrestha|Rajesh Kumar Yadav|S. C. Gurung
Assessment of Health-Related Quality of Life among Tuberculosis Patients with and without Diabetes in Western Region of Nepal
Pokhara University|Pokhara University|Pokhara University
introduction currently tuberculosis great public health importance globally especially developing countries due converging epidemics communicable diseases quality life important people diabetes tb health care providers several reasons objective study assess status quality life among tuberculosis patients without diabetesx0d methods research health facility based cross sectional study carried among tb patients registered directly observed treatment short course therapy receiving treatment health facilities western region nepal interview schedule used collect data quality life assessed using nepali version whoqolbreff questionnaires data entered epi data software analysis performed help statistical package social science version 20x0d results total 390 tb patients participated study overall prevalence diabetes mellitus among tb patient 108 half participants 1540 years age whoqolbref measure overall quality life tb patients 68821079 poor levels quality life among different sociodemographic variables older people married illiterate participants poor qol others hrqol affected age sex marital status tb diabetes patients lesser overall quality life 881 tb without diabetes patients 944x0d conclusion finding suggests improving tb patients health literacy counselling promoted achieve optimum levels qol