Качество жизни детей и подростков с туберкулезом легких на фоне сопутствующей патологии

Аннотация

Work is devoted to studying of life quality parameters of children and adolescents with tuberculosis. Laboratory and instrumental methods examination of patients do not cover all aspect of tuberculous infection and do not allow valuing the condition of children and adolescents with pulmonary tuberculosis. At analysis of life’s quality there is full possibility to define the influence of the disease on physical, psychological and social aspects of the organism’s functioning. The analysis of quantitative indexes children and adolescents quality of life was conducted depending on accompanying pathology. For research was used the questionnaire of Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory - PedsQL. Questionnaire of PedsQL 4.0. includes 23 questions, incorporated in 4 scales. Every question has 5 variants of answers: "no", "hardly ever", "sometimes", "often" and "almost always", from which it is needed to choose one, most going near a situation.