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TY  - THES
AU  - Güner-Capraz, Nesrin
TI  - Fatigue und Lebensqualität bei Patienten mit chronischer Hepatitis C
CY  - Aachen
PB  - Publikationsserver der RWTH Aachen University
M1  - RWTH-CONV-122462
SP  - 124 S. : graph. Darst.
PY  - 2005
N1  - Aachen, Techn. Hochsch., Diss., 2005
AB  - Fatique is the persistent psychic as well as physically felt tiredness and exhaustion. This symptom goes along with a serious restriction of the quality of life and is often observed with patients with a chronic liver illness. The objective of this work is to examine the fatigue symptom and its influence on the quality of life, psychic load and cognitive abilities with patients with chronic hepatitis C. In the present study 46 patients with chronic hepatitis C, 13 patients with chronic hepatitis B, 22 patients with not virale hepatitis were enclosed and compared to control group with a chronically not hepatic illness 32 patients with a chronically inflammatory intestinal illness (Morbus Crohn or Colitus ulcerosa). A second control group consists of 38 healthy test persons. Patients and controls completed an self-report questionnaire with a total of 11 different tests (3 tiredness tests: Visual Analog Scale, Fatigue Severity Scale, Fatigue Impact Scale; 2 tests for the judgement of psychic load: Beck Depression Inventory, Symtom Check Liste; 1 test for the judgement of cognitive deficits: Fragebogen erlebter Aufmerksamkeitsdefizite; 5 tests for the judgement of the quality of life: Modulares System zur Lebensqualität, Fragen zur Lebenszufriedenheit, Nottingham Health Profile, Befindlichkeitsliste, Beschwerdeliste). As a function of subjectively felt tiredness the evaluation occurred for every illness group after allocation of the patients in subgroups with and without subjective tiredness. Regardless of the etiology of the illness, 50-60
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)11
UR  - https://publications.rwth-aachen.de/record/60772
ER  -