Factors influencing on health-related quality of life in South Korean with chronic liver disease

Abstract

People with CLD may suffer from specific complications of cirrhosis such as ascites, hepatic encephalopathy, and variceal bleeding. [...]fatigue, joint pain, skin itching, loss of appetite, depression, loss of libido, and problem of memory are associated CLD. Poor people are vulnerable groups who have economic difficulties arising from repeat hospitalization [29–31] and the lack of self-management for health [32]. [...]a multidisciplinary nursing intervention program that considers various characteristics of CLD with low HRQoL is needed. Sleep, like diet and exercise, is a vital part of physical, cognitive, and emotional health [22]. [...]it will be necessary to have a repeated study to verify that affecting factors the quality of life such as alcohol and sleep of patients with CLD. [...]marital status, occupation, BLSRS, SHS, depression and HCC were confirmed as affecting factors, health behavior variables were not significant.