Open AccessDisease-specific health-related quality of life and its determinants in liver cirrhosis patients in Lithuania
Author(s) -
Jolanta Šumskienė
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
world journal of gastroenterology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.427
H-Index - 155
eISSN - 2219-2840
pISSN - 1007-9327
DOI - 10.3748/wjg.v12.i48.7792
Subject(s) - medicine , cirrhosis , quality of life (healthcare) , cronbach's alpha , chronic liver disease , liver disease , disease , population , gastroenterology , worry , psychometrics , anxiety , clinical psychology , psychiatry , nursing , environmental health
To evaluate disease-specific quality of life (QOL) in liver cirrhosis patients and to compare it with those of a healthy population. Also an important objective was to assess whether QOL in liver cirrhosis patients differs by age and gender, by type and severity of disease.
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