Health-related quality of life (HRQoL), anxiety and depression in patients with ureteral stricture: a multi-institutional study

• Published in: World journal of urology 2023-01, Vol.41 (1), p.275-281
• Main Authors: Li, Zhihua, Wang, Xiang, Ying, Yicen, Li, Xinfei, Zhu, Weijie, Meng, Chang, Han, Guanpeng, Liu, Jing, Wang, Jie, Huang, Yanbo, Yang, Kunlin, Zhang, Peng, Zhu, Hongjian, Guan, Hua, Li, Xuesong, Zhou, Liqun
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Anxiety; Anxiety - epidemiology; Anxiety - psychology; Constriction, Pathologic; Depression - epidemiology; Depression - etiology; Female; Humans; Iatrogenesis; Iatrogenic Disease; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Mental depression; Nephrology; Oncology; Original Article; Patients; Quality of life; Quality of Life - psychology; Stricture; Surveys and Questionnaires; Ureter - pathology; Urology
• ISSN: 1433-8726; 0724-4983; 1433-8726
• DOI: 10.1007/s00345-022-04227-5

Purpose To evaluate health-related quality of life (HRQoL), anxiety and depression levels in patients with ureteral stricture (US) and to further investigate factors independently affecting this. Methods We prospectively recruited a cohort of 275 consecutive patients with US between June 2020 and April 2021. The participants were required to provide complete sociodemographic, clinical and pathologic information. All patients were administered questionnaires to evaluate HRQoL, anxiety and depression. Multivariate linear regression analyses were performed to assess the contribution of covariates on HRQoL, anxiety and depression. Results Patients with US, particularly iatrogenic US, scored significantly lower than the Chinese general population in all domains of the SF-36 (all p