The Consequences of Chronic Illness in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease: The Study of Cypriot Patients

Abstract

Background and aims: In the context of investigating chronic diseases, at the present study there was an effort to investigate the impact of Ulcerative Colitis and Crohn`s Disease in Cypriot patients. Methods: For evaluating the impact of Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) the validated translation of the Inflammatory Bowel Disease Questionnaire (IBDQ) was used. The questionnaire was answered by 204 Cypriot patients suffering with IBD. Out of those, 102 (50%) suffered with Ulcerative Colitis and 102 (50%) Crohn΄s Disease. Results: Out of the statistical analysis of the total of patient’s it was indicated that the disease has bigger impact in the group of women of the population that took place in the study than in men with p value =0.000 and a mean of 148.30 against 171.87 respectively. It was indicated that there is a bigger impact in relation to the duration of the disease p value =0.000 with the score reducing as the duration of the disease is increasing and also was indicated that patients that did not underwent surgery had better scores that the ones operated with p value =0.001 and a mean of 165.58 against 143.27. There is also an important statistical difference in relation to age but with a weak correlation. Conclusion: The present study on the total of patients reveals that IBD have negative impacts in Cypriots patients’ firstly high risk in women secondly in patients with an increase duration of the disease and thirdly high risk in operated patients