Health related quality of life of children born preterm compared to children born at term

• Autor(a) principal: Mazzo, Débora Melo
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Kluthcovsk, Ana Cláudia Garabeli Cavalli, Alves, Fabiana Bucholdz Teixeira
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Brasileira de Qualidade de Vida
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.utfpr.edu.br/rbqv/article/view/14821
• topic: 4.00.00.00-1 - Ciências da Saúde/ 4.08.00.00-8 Fisioterapia e Terapia Ocupacional; Pprematuro; qualidade de vida; inquéritos; questionários.; Premature; quality of life; surveys; questionnaires.

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate health related quality of life of children born preterm hospitalized in a neonatal intensive care unity (NICU) of a university hospital using TNO-AZL Preschool Quality of Life Questionnaire (TAPQOL).METHODS: Epidemiological, observational, cross-sectional and quantitative study which population consisted of a convenience sample of children with age between one and five years old born preterm who had been hospitalized in NICU and a control group, consisted by children born at term who did not need NICU care at birth. Data was processed in Excel 2010 data bank and statistical analysis obtained through Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) version 15.0, p≤0,05 values were considered significant.RESULTS: Preterm newborns often needs NICU assistance and their evolution after hospitalization is marked by complications that can influence their quality of life. Mean age of group of children born prematurely was 32,52 months at time of data collection and 31,7 weeks of gestational age at birth, length of stay in NICU was 41,17 days. TAPQOL domains for ‘social interaction’ and ‘communication’ were the only that showed statistical significance between group of children born prematurely and control group.CONCLUSIONS: Based on TAPQOL it was possible to verify that children born preterm that had been hospitalized at NICU do not experience low quality of life.