Quality of Life and Related Factors in Patients with Chronic Urticaria in Kurdistan Province

Chronic urticaria is a dermal disease with continuous rash, itching or angioedema, papules and inflammatory plaques, which under conditions transformed from the acute phase to the chronic phase, causing depression and anxiety for many years in patients.  Chronic urticaria has a significant impact on the quality of life of the patient. The aim of this study was to examined the quality of life and related factors of patients with chronic urticaria in Kurdistan Province.

This descriptive study was performed on 228 patients referred to the Allergy Clinic of Besat Hospital in 2016 Census sampling method was used for selecting patient/ Information was gathered by using DQLI questionnaire. Then describe the data by frequency and percentage descriptive and quantitative data were calculated with Chi 2 and Spearman correlation, by using SPSS 15.

The mean age of participants was 34.81 ± 10.55 years. Data analysis showed that there was a significant correlation between quality of life and gender (p <0.001). There was a significant correlation between quality of life and type of disease (p <0.001). However, there was no significant correlation between quality of life and place of residence and education (p> 0.05).

The results showed that chronic urticaria has significant effect on patients' quality life. It seems that these patients were psychologically involved and their level of satisfaction of quality life was reduced.