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Health-related quality of life, workability, and return to work of patients after liver transplantation
BACKGROUND: Health-related quality of life (HrQoL) and workability are related parameters to measure success of therapy. Both have been insufficiently explored in patients after liver transplantation (LT). Particularly little is known about patients’ attitude to return to work, employment status bef...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8481138/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33956200 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00423-021-02183-z |
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author | Fazekas, Christian Kniepeiss, Daniela Arold, Nora Matzer, Franziska Wagner-Skacel, Jolana Schemmer, Peter |
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description | BACKGROUND: Health-related quality of life (HrQoL) and workability are related parameters to measure success of therapy. Both have been insufficiently explored in patients after liver transplantation (LT). Particularly little is known about patients’ attitude to return to work, employment status before LT, and how frequently there is any employment at any time after LT. METHODS: This is a single-center retrospective cohort study including 150 adult outpatients after LT. Liver transplantations had been performed between 1993 and 2018. The study was carried out from February to July 2018. The exclusion criteria were combined transplantations, positive screening for current alcohol abuse, and anxiety or depression. To evaluate HrQoL and fitness to work, the patients were tested using the Short Form 36, the Chronic Liver Disease Questionnaire, and the Work Ability Index. KEY RESULTS: The return rate of sufficiently filled-in questionnaires was 46.8% (66 patients). The mean age of patients was 59.9 years (SD=10.8), ranging from 25 to 78 years old. HrQoL was partly comparable to the normal population. Workability sum scores with a mean value of 31.61 (SD 9.79) suggested moderate workability at present. While only 28.8% of respondents were ever employed after LT, 45.5% currently wished to work or would have wished to work. CONCLUSIONS: HRQL seems to be partly similar to population data, and subjective workability seems to be moderate in patients after LT. Despite a positive attitude to return to work in almost half of respondents, a lower rate of actual return to work was found in this study. |
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spelling | pubmed-84811382021-10-08 Health-related quality of life, workability, and return to work of patients after liver transplantation Fazekas, Christian Kniepeiss, Daniela Arold, Nora Matzer, Franziska Wagner-Skacel, Jolana Schemmer, Peter Langenbecks Arch Surg Original Article BACKGROUND: Health-related quality of life (HrQoL) and workability are related parameters to measure success of therapy. Both have been insufficiently explored in patients after liver transplantation (LT). Particularly little is known about patients’ attitude to return to work, employment status before LT, and how frequently there is any employment at any time after LT. METHODS: This is a single-center retrospective cohort study including 150 adult outpatients after LT. Liver transplantations had been performed between 1993 and 2018. The study was carried out from February to July 2018. The exclusion criteria were combined transplantations, positive screening for current alcohol abuse, and anxiety or depression. To evaluate HrQoL and fitness to work, the patients were tested using the Short Form 36, the Chronic Liver Disease Questionnaire, and the Work Ability Index. KEY RESULTS: The return rate of sufficiently filled-in questionnaires was 46.8% (66 patients). The mean age of patients was 59.9 years (SD=10.8), ranging from 25 to 78 years old. HrQoL was partly comparable to the normal population. Workability sum scores with a mean value of 31.61 (SD 9.79) suggested moderate workability at present. While only 28.8% of respondents were ever employed after LT, 45.5% currently wished to work or would have wished to work. CONCLUSIONS: HRQL seems to be partly similar to population data, and subjective workability seems to be moderate in patients after LT. Despite a positive attitude to return to work in almost half of respondents, a lower rate of actual return to work was found in this study. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2021-05-06 2021 /pmc/articles/PMC8481138/ /pubmed/33956200 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00423-021-02183-z Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Original Article Fazekas, Christian Kniepeiss, Daniela Arold, Nora Matzer, Franziska Wagner-Skacel, Jolana Schemmer, Peter Health-related quality of life, workability, and return to work of patients after liver transplantation |
title | Health-related quality of life, workability, and return to work of patients after liver transplantation |
title_full | Health-related quality of life, workability, and return to work of patients after liver transplantation |
title_fullStr | Health-related quality of life, workability, and return to work of patients after liver transplantation |
title_full_unstemmed | Health-related quality of life, workability, and return to work of patients after liver transplantation |
title_short | Health-related quality of life, workability, and return to work of patients after liver transplantation |
title_sort | health-related quality of life, workability, and return to work of patients after liver transplantation |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8481138/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33956200 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00423-021-02183-z |
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