To know the health-related quality of life (HRQL) to the in lung transplantation recipient and their relationship with the dyspnea and with the 6-min walk test.
Descriptive study. Participants: Lung transplanted patients. Mensurations: socio-demografic data, FEV1, functional parameters (dyspnea and 6-min walk test), and generic test of HRQL SF-36 Health Index. A t-test to compare the mean punctuations in each dimesion the SF-36 with the reference values of the spanish population. Pearson correlation between perceived HRQL and functional parameters. Multivariate analysis to identify predicted variables of the HRQL.
59 people, 36 men and 23 women participated. The mean age was 43.77 years (SD卤15.27) and the mean time postrasplante of 3.7 years (SD卤2.18). The punctuations obtained in the lung transplanted patients for the dimensions physical function, pain, mental health and vitality they went upper to them the population reference values (p value<0.05), not being differences for the rest. The dimensions physical function, role physical and social function presented high correlations with the degree of dyspnea (p value=0.01) as well as in the multivariate analysis (R2=0.60).
The HRQL declared by the lung transplanted patients it is similar to the reference spanish population. The dyspnea it is the parameter that better is related with the quality of life.