Key result
Pain or discomfort affects ~54% of outpatients with essential hypertension.
Why the study?
The increasing prevalence of hypertension necessitates strategies to help health professionals and the public detect and manage the condition early, including assessing patients' quality of life.
Cross-Sectional (n=33)
No
In outpatients with essential primary hypertension, quality of life measured by EQ-5D-5L showed pain/discomfort as the most affected dimension, though a significant proportion reported no problems and high VAS scores.
Pain/discomfort screening may merit consideration in hypertension outpatients; leaves open causal links and outcome prediction in prospective studies.
The prevalence rate of hypertension continues to increase every year. Strategies are needed to help health professionals and the public discover the tendency of hypertension as early as possible. Measuring quality of life is one way to discover the description of the patient's condition. It can help health workers and the public prevent and treat hypertension. One of the questionnaires to assess the quality of life is the European Quality of Life - 5 Dimensions- 5 Level (EQ-5D-5L) form issued by EuroQol. This questionnaire consists of questions and a visual analog scale (VAS). The research was conducted on August 27, 2018 - September 14, 2018. Using the EQ-5D-5L questionnaire, the self-care aspect (SC) is the dimension that is least affected by the patient's hypertension, with a percentage of 6%. The pain or discomfort dimension (PD) is the most affected, with a percentage of 54%, where 12 people (36%) do not have problematic dimensions, so the index value is 1. Measurements with VAS show that most patients have a VAS value of 90 55. % with an average value of 70.
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Skarayadi et al. (2023) conducted a cross-sectional in Essential primary hypertension (n=33). Essential primary hypertension was evaluated on Quality of life measured by EQ-5D-5L index and Visual Analog Scale (VAS). Among outpatients with essential primary hypertension, the pain or discomfort dimension of the EQ-5D-5L was the most affected (54%), and the median Visual Analog Scale score for quality of life was 70.
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