quality of life

Aim: In spite of recent achievements in public health, average lifetime in the Volga region as in whole Russia is rather short. Issues of longevity in the region produce scientific interest by clinical, epidemiological and social characteristics of long-lived persons. Material and methods: In total 167 long-lived persons were examined. Medical, social, psychic, emotional and epidemiological characteristics were assessed. Results: The typical long-lived person of the Volga region was brought out. The high quality of life was revealed. The negative influence of smoking and alcoholism on the longevity was shown. Most of the patients needed communication. Lack of complaints was revealed, patients mentioned only the general weakness. Conclusion: The study has explained new social and demographic features of the Volga region long-livers

90 patients with upper extremity fractures took part in the study. The injured patients were treated with rod and pin-and-rod type external fixation devices and by means of external immobilization. It was demonstrated that quality of life to the moment of device removal was 8-9 points higher in patients treated with pin type external fixation in comparison with pin-and-rod type. Quality of life was higher in patients with proximal upper extremity injuries

The research goals include: 1) assessment the quality of life of those patients who have defects of tooth rows not replaced by orthopedic appliances on the basis of the complex analysis; 2) choice of more reasonable method of treatment. The use of dental questionnaires such as Oral Health Impact Profile-14 (OHIP-14) while treating oral pathology allows both optimizing an approach to choosing an appropriate treatment method and making more successful prognosis as to the efficiency of treatment being performed. The quality of life of those patients who have tooth rows defects not replaced by orthopedic appliances depends on sex, age, family status, employment and extent of tooth rows defects. Patients with tooth rows defects not replaced by orthopedic appliances accompanied by diseases of peri-odontium are characterized by worse quality of life. This fact must be taken into consideration while planning patients' treatment

Clinical and life quality features of 183 patients with chronic pancreatitis and diabetes mellitus were studied. We have found that the incidence of exacerbations increased by 36,7% after the appearance of diabetes mellitus, the number of days of loss of ability to work increased by 27,8%, the quality of life decreased

This article deals with the factors influencing mental health in modern society and describes approaches for evaluation of quality of life in depressive patients in psychiatric practice. The results of the study of quality of life in depressive patients relevant to health are presented

The research objective is to work out the creation of Russian-language questionnaire for assessing quality of life of patients with chronic urticaria by adapting the questionnaire «Chronic Urticaria Quality of Life Questionnaire» (CU-Q2oL) to Russian conditions. The study involved 150 patients aged 18 to 50 years (32,41±6,02) with chronic urticaria. Cultural and linguistic adaptation of the questionnaire was conducted according to international methodology. Evaluation of reliability was conducted by calculating Cronbach's б-coefficient, constructive validity -the method of «known groups» and the identification of mutual correlations with the scales of the SF-36 questionnaire, sensitivity-by comparing the quality of life before and after the treatment. High values of Cronbach's б-coefficient (>0.72) were obtained, the dependence of quality of life on the severity of chronic urticaria was proved to be significant, as well as the sensitivity of the questionnaire to clinical changes. The research findings confirmed good psychometric properties of Russian version of the questionnaire. The developed version of the questionnaire is a reliable, valid and sensitive device for assessing the quality of life in patients with chronic urticaria, and may be used in scientific and clinical research.

This article presents the results of 116 radical cystectomies of patients with bladder cancer. In all the cases various generated modifications of orthotopic bladder including the authors' methodology have been carried out. The structure of complications during the post-operative period has been analyzed. Various complications occurred in 16,4 % of patients. In 3,4 % of cases they caused death. In 74% of cases direct dependence of postoperative complications on advanced tumorous process and severity of accomponied pathology has been identified. Direct dependence on the selection of method of urine derivation has not been found. Five-year cancer survival rate accounted 70 %. The study of patients' quality of life has been performed using EORTC-QLQ-C-30. High indices have been worked out. Dependence on the method of orthotopic bladder creation has been negligible

The type of urinary derivation after radical cystectomy due to urinary bladder carcinoma may greatly influence quality of life of patients. The purpose of this study was to estimate influence of different types of urinary derivation after cystectomy upon lifetime and health-related quality of life of patients with invasive urinary bladder cancer.

To compare the quality of life of patients treated for hand bone fractures, 120 patients after internal pin and external fixation were examined. For the study purposes, the special questionnaires were used to determine the quality of life. The data obtained give evidence that using of surgical treatment allows to achieve the positive dynamics of patients’ quality of life, the most marked in patients with external fixation technique. It should be mentioned that in cases of rehabilitation period elongation the level of quality of life has not been connected with effectiveness of used surgical technique.

On the basis of Russian literature data the authors studied contemporary problems of students’ healthy lifestyle forming as the main health constitutive factor.