Qualidade de vida, depressão e ansiedade em pacientes portadores de doença inflamatória intestinal em Sergipe

Abstract

Objectives: To evaluate the quality of life (QoL) and its relation with anxiolytic and depressive symptoms of patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) in Ser?gipe. 26 27 METHODS: A cross-sectional observational study between April 2018 and De cember 2019 at the University Hospital of the Federal University of Sergipe and Hos pital de Cirurgia included 37 patients with IBD. Sociodemographic data, quality of life (WHOQOL and IBDQ) and depressive and anxious symptoms (HADS-D and HADS A) were evaluated.Results: the majority of the participants in this study were female, married, had primary / secondary education, without their own remuneration and without immunobiological use. The mean QoL was regular for both WHOQOL-brief and IBDQ scales. The frequency of patients with anxiety was 56.7% and with depression of 43.3% and the correlation between most dimensions of the IBDQ was strong with the average of anxiety and moderate with that of depression. Conclusion: The QoL found was regular for both scales, which reinforced the literature data. It was also found that anxious symptoms were present in most patients, unlike depressives that did not reach half of the sample studied. Finally, QoL was stron gly associated with anxious and moderately depressive symptoms