[A study of the psychological and social factors in patients with pulmonary tuberculosis]
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Published on: October 5, 2015
Lin Yang1, Dong-ling Wu, Hong-ge Guo
1Antituberculosis Institute of Zhuhai, Zhuhai 519001, China.
Objective:
To investigate the mental health and social support in patients with tuberculosis.
Methods:
Questionnaires were performed in 132 patients with tuberculosis and 71 healthy volunteers using Symptom Checklist 90 (SCL-90) and Social Support Rating Scale (SSRS). Statistical analyses were processed using Student's t test and ANOVA test.
Results:
Somatization, obsessive-compulsiveness, anxiety, phobic anxiety and paranoid ideation, psychotism and the mean of positive factors of SCL-90 of the tuberculosis group (1.77 +/- 0.51, 1.63 +/- 0.50, 1.53 +/- 0.51, 1.33 +/- 0.41, 1.40 +/- 0.45, 1.41 +/- 0.40 and 36.07 +/- 20.84, respectively) were significantly higher than those of the control group (1.30 +/- 0.49, 1.43 +/- 0.49, 1.38 +/- 0.65, 1.24 +/- 0.48, 1.49 +/- 0.69, 1.30 +/- 0.44 and 24.92 +/- 18.22, respectively) (all P < 0.01). The result of symptom self-check differed among patients with different educational levels. The SSRS results of subjective and objective supports and total score of social supports of the tuberculosis group were 6.90 +/- 2.81, 19.25 +/- 5.62 and 32.96 +/- 7.86, respectively, much lower than those of the control group (7.92 +/- 2.57, 21.54 +/- 5.82 and 36.51 +/- 9.01, respectively) (all P < 0.01). Subjective support of patients with smear positive tuberculosis was much lower than that of patients with smear negative disease (18.15 +/- 5.72 vs. 20.75 +/- 5.78, P < 0.05); Subjective support, objective support and total score of social support of the unmarried patients (17.19 +/- 4.20, 6.17 +/- 2.18, 30.35 +/- 5.96, respectively) were lower than those of the married (20.72 +/- 5.96, 7.66 +/- 3.03, 35.19 +/- 8.74, respectively) (all P < 0.01). The results of SCL-90 and SSRS had no statistical relationship.
Conclusion:
Our results suggest that the disordered mental conditions and lower social support in patients with tuberculosis need psychosocial interventions in addition to medical care.
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