Quality-of-Life Evaluation of Patients Undergoing Lumbar Discectomy Using Short Form 36

Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine
Gholamreza FarzaneganSaeid Safari

Abstract

Back pain is one of the most common health problems for which physicians are consulted, and it can considerably decrease the quality of life of patients during a great part of their lives. Our study was designed for assessing the improvement in the quality of life of patients undergoing lumbar discectomy for chronic low back pain. We included 148 patients with chronic low back pain in the analytic observational study. Using the 36-Item Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36), we evaluated the quality of life before and 6 and 12 months after lumbar discectomy. Physical and mental health scores of patients significantly improved after 6 and 12 months of lumbar discectomy. The mean improvement in physical health scores was significantly higher in female patients than in male patients. However, the improvement in mental health scores was not significantly difference between the 2 sexes and the educational and body mass index (BMI) groups. Lumbar discectomy improves both the physical and mental health subscale of the quality of life in patients with chronic disc herniation.

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Nov 19, 2013·Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine·Mahsa MotavafSeyed Moayed Alavian

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