Less social deprivation is associated with better health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in asthma and is mediated by less anxiety and better sleep quality


Moitra S., Adan A., Akgun M., Anderson A., Brickstock A., Eathorne A., ...Daha Fazla

JOURNAL OF ALLERGY AND CLINICAL IMMUNOLOGY: IN PRACTICE, cilt.11, sa.7, ss.2115-2124, 2023 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier identifier

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BACKGROUND: Previous studies on health life (HRQoL) in asthma have mainly focused environmental determinants. Little is known social determinants on HRQoL in asthma. OBJECTIVES: We aimed to investigate social deprivation and HRQoL in asthma. METHODS: A total of 691 adult asthmatics New Zealand, and the United Kingdom digital questionnaire containing demographic questions about social and psychological disturbances, and alcohol abuse. HRQoL the Short Form of the Chronic Respiratory CRQ). We analyzed the direct and indirect between social deprivation and HRQoL equation models with social deprivation tested for mediation via anxiety, depression, and alcohol abuse. RESULTS: We found that less social deprivation was directly associated with better SF-CRQ as dyspnea (regression coefficient b: 0.33; terval [CI]: 0.07 to 0.58), fatigue (b: 0.39; and emotional function (b: 0.37; 95% CI: the worse mastery score (b: -0.29; 95% however, those associations varied across We also observed that among all individual indicators, education, companionship, emotional instrumental and social isolation