[Depression prevalence and quality of life of patients with advanced schistosomiasis].

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Address: Fengcheng Municipal Station of Schistosomiasis Control, Jiangxi Province, Fengcheng 331100, China.
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abstract

OBJECTIVE:

To investigate the Depression prevalence of patients with advanced schistosomiasis, as well as their quality of life.

METHODS:

A total of 356 patients with advanced schistosomiasis were investigated with the Self-rating Depression Scale (SDS) and SF-36 scale for their situation of depression and quality of life.

RESULTS:

Among 356 cases, 306 effective questionnaires were collected. The prevalence of depression was 48.70%. The scores of 8 dimensions of SF-36 of the patients with depression were significantly lower than those of the patients without depression (all P values were less than 0.01), and there were negative correlations between SDS scores and scores of all the dimensions of SF-36 (r values were between -0.839 and -0.182, all P values were less than 0.001).

CONCLUSIONS:

The prevalence of depression of patients with advanced schistosomiasis is high, and their quality of life is low. Besides active treatment, we should give more attention to their mental health.

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