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Quality of Life in Crohn’s Disease

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Handbook of Disease Burdens and Quality of Life Measures

Abstract:

Crohn’s disease is a chronic, relapsing disease with an often early age of onset that can affect the entire gastrointestinal tract. Crohn’s disease can have a debilitating effect on a patient’s social, educational, professional, and familial activities; thus having a profound effect on their health related quality of life (HRQOL). Only recently has an effort been made to determine the impact Crohn’s disease has on health related quality of life. Health related quality of life is a patient’s understanding of and relating to their illness within the scope of their lifestyle and in the process of doing so uses physical, psychological, cultural, educational, professional, and disease associated factors. Two types of instruments can be used to measure health related quality of life, general and disease specific, both of which look at various domains of a person’s life and must be validated, reproducible, and reliable. The health related quality of life of Crohn’s patients has been found to be significantly worse when compared to the healthy population. It is affected by various factors like disease activity, gender, medical and surgical treatment. It significantly affects the health related quality of life of adolescents in addition to the educational, familial, and professional aspirations of patients. Data on health related quality of life could provide valuable information on how to develop research protocols and alter treatment algorithms with the resolve of not only improving patient outcomes but also possibly improving utilization of resources.

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Abbreviations

HRQOL:

Health related quality of life

IBD:

Inflammatory bowel disease

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    S. D. Wexner & J. C. Frattini

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  1. Dept. Nutrition and Dietetics Nutritional Sciences Research Division School of Biomedical & Health Sciences, King's College London, Franklin‐Wilkins Building 150 Stamford Street, SE1 9NH, London, UK

    Victor R. Preedy (Prof.) (Prof.)

  2. Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, University of Arizona, Health Science Center 1295 N. Martin, P.O. Box 245155, 85724-5155, Tucson, AZ

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Wexner, S.D., Frattini, J.C. (2010). Quality of Life in Crohn’s Disease. In: Preedy, V.R., Watson, R.R. (eds) Handbook of Disease Burdens and Quality of Life Measures. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-78665-0_127

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