Introduction: knee osteoarthritis, a common condition in Sub-Saharan Africa, affects the quality of life of patients.
Objective: Identify the factors associated with impaired quality of life.
Patients And Methods: Cross-sectional and analytical study, carried out in the Department of Rheumatology at the University Teaching Hospital of Brazzaville, in two steps. The first made it possible to collect data of patients diagnosed as having knee osteoarthritis according to the the ACR criteria of 1986 and followed up from January 1st, 2013 to December 31st, 2017. The second step consisted in measuring the quality of life of patients using a specific quality-of-life questionnaire for knee and hip osteoarthritis OAKHQOL, then identifying by bivariate analysis after analysis of variance (ANOVA), the factors associated with an impairment of the quality of life (P≤ 5%). It took place from May 02 to November 02, 2018 (6 months). One hundred and nineteen patients were investigated.
Results: We included in this study 103 women and 16 men (sex ratio M / F of 1/6). The average age was 56.1 ± 9 years (range 27 to 77 years). The mean evolution time was 5.1 ± 3.6 years. The knee osteoarthritis moderately impaired the overall quality of life of patients. The most affected dimensions were physical activity and pain (51.3% and 42.9% of patients between 25 and 50 respectively). The evolution time and functional impact were potentially associated with all dimensions of quality of life. Age was associated with poorer quality of life in the physical activities (p = 0.012) and social activities (p = 0.001) dimensions, as was obesity, with the social activities dimension (p = 0.004).
Conclusion: The duration of evolution and the functional impact were associated with deterioration in the quality of life.
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