Health-Related Quality of Life in Patients with Health Conditions in Lebanese Community Setting

Abstract

Background: The measurement of health-related quality of life (HRQoL) provides utility scores that could be used for health economics assessment. The aim of this study was to measure HRQoL in Lebanese patients with certain medical conditions, and to determine demographic and medical factors affecting such health utility scores. Method: This was a prospective cross-sectional pilot study conducted to gather information on the socioeconomic status, health condition and quality of life of participants with common diseases during their community pharmacy visit. The EuroQol-5-Dimension instrument was used to measure utility scores and SPSS v26 was used to perform the statistical analysis. Results: Participants (n = 102) gave an average of 6.8 and 7.4 out of 10 for their current health and for their satisfaction with their treatment, respectively. The mean utility score was 0.762 (SD 0.202). The number of prescribed medications per respondent indicated a significant impact on HRQoL (p = 0.002). On average, the utility scores were low for participants who were 75 years or older (0.15, p < 0.001), and those who were hospitalized in the past 12 months (0.111, p < 0.001). For every unit increase in treatment satisfaction, the quality-of-life score increased by 0.036 unit (p = 0.001). Conclusion: This pilot study measured health utility scores and factors influencing HRQoL in the Lebanese population. Further studies are needed to confirm our findings and to develop and validate tools helping to measure health related quality of life in the population in Lebanon.

Health-related Quality of Life and Utilities among Lebanese Patients with Multiple Sclerosis: A cross-sectional study

“…This could however be explained by the inclusion of a higher percentage of patients with severe MS − 28.3% for the Netherlands and 30% for the UK, compared with 13% in our study. The mean utility for the EQ-5D-5L in a recent study using the UK value set on Lebanese patients with diabetes and cardiovascular diseases was 0.76, similar to our result [31].…”

“…Utility scores in our study, derived from the EQ-5D-5L and MusiQoL, were similar to existing QoL studies in Lebanon [19,20,31].…”

“…Several countries have created their own national index value set and most of these sets represent the societal perspective (www.euroqol.org). In the absence of a Lebanese index value, we calculated the health utility score by using the UK EQ-5D-5L value set [26,31].…”

Assessing Quality of Life from the Lens of Sustainability in Africa

“…Results from the study indicated that the high-income group have higher life satisfaction than the middle-income group, and the middle-income group has higher life satisfaction than the low-income group. Likewise, Dimassi et al (2021) showed that Lebanese adults with higher socioeconomic classes had a considerably better QoL than those of lower socioeconomic classes.…”