Assessment of Quality of Life of Patients Fed with Total Parenteral Nutrition

Aim: This study is planned to assess the quality of life and the factors affecting quality of life in individuals fed with total parenteral nutrition (TPN).

Method: This descriptive and relationship detecting type of study was carried out with 80 tpn taking patient. Structured questionnaire and The Mos 36 Item Short From Health Survey- SF-36 was used for collecting the data. Data analysis was done with SPSS 15.0 package program by descriptive statistics, parametric tests and correlation analysis.

Results: Health-related quality of life mean scores were signifi cantly lower in all the sub-dimensions. There was a weak level of negative correlation between ‘The Social Function’ sub-dimension and age (r = -0.279), and these habitats was impacted by the status of the child (p = 0.028) were determined. ‘Physical Function’ sub-dimension mean scores showed statistically signifi cant differences according to complications presence (p= 0.046), and hyperglycemia experiencing status (p= 0.041) and ‘emotional role limitations’ (p= 0.041) sub-dimension average score showed statistically signifi cant differences according to additional disease states.

Conclusion: TPN fed patients have bad quality of life and factors as age, and having children, socio-demographic characteristics, having complication and particularly experience of hyperglycemia and presence of concomitant disease adversely affected quality of life.