QUALITY OF LIFE AND LIFESTYLE – BENCHMARKS IN EVALUATING PATIENTS WITH INFLAMMATORY BOWEL PATHOLOGY
QUALITY OF LIFE AND LIFESTYLE – BENCHMARKS IN EVALUATING PATIENTS WITH INFLAMMATORY BOWEL PATHOLOGY

Summary/Abstract: Quality of life is a good physical, mental and social condition, and patients' ability to perform activities of daily living. Intestinal inflammatory pathology represent idiopathic, chronic diseases of the bowels, the major representatives being ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease. The severe treatment and side effects of these diseases have a major impact on quality of life and patients lifestyle to. The study aim is to demonstrate that the impact between quality of life and disease can influence the normality of the patient. „Time” triggers the emergence of depressive anxiety disorders that might occur as a consequence of the disease. Gender distribution was approximately equal, with a slight increase in males compared to females. The analysis revealed that the daily schedule of the patients that answered to the questionnaire, is disrupted at a rate of 80%, plus fatigue and physical inactivity - 90%, lifestyle changes, while the patient need to maintain permanent the relationship with their doctor. Inflammatory bowel pathology can give a new perspective to patient’s quality of life, lifestyle, which is why they need the support of family, friends and especially the doctor, in critical periods of the disease. Besides drug therapy, these patients require also psychotherapy to understand easily these disease.

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