Clinical Factor Affecting Quality of Life in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Patients
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COPD is a chronic respiratory disease with the main complaints are breathlessness and decreasing tolerance for activities leading to the worsening quality of life. The study seeks to discover the clinical factors on the quality of life of COPD patients. Research design is a quantitative correlation study conducted at the Pulmonary Specialist Polyclinic, Panti Rapih Hospital and Panti Rini Hospital, Yogyakarta. Sampling was carried out with a total of 75 COPD patients who visited the pulmonary specialist polyclinic. Methods is data collection through filling out questionnaires directly to respondents in a cross-sectional manner. Quality of life was measured using the SGRQ instrument and the method of assessment was using the SGRQ manual calculator. The data is processed by Spearman's test to see the relationship between variables. The results of the SGRQ showed that 54.7% of respondents had moderate quality of life. There was no relationship between quality of life and length of illness, the presence of other diseases, and BMI, and there was a significant relationship between quality of life and the degree of COPD. The Results is 53.3% of respondents were in the age range of 60 – 74 years, 66.7% were male, 57.3% were ex-smokers, 40% had COPD for less than one year, 89.3% had no history of other lung diseases, 45.3% were at BMI was normal and 44% underweight, and 54.7% were in the COPD GOLD 2 saverity. The conclusion from a clinical perspective, only the degree of COPD is significantly related to quality of life
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