2020 Volume 40 Pages 32-39
Purpose: To elucidate the changes in Schedule for the Evaluation of Individual Quality of Life (SEIQoL) and the relationships between SEIQoL and a disease-specific scale as well as health-related QOL in elderly total hip arthroplasty (THA) patients.
Methods: The subjects were 30 patients aged ≥65 years undergoing a first THA. Semi-structured interviews with the SEIQoL-Direct Weighting (DW) and questionnaire surveys with a disease-specific scale (Japanese Orthopaedic Association Hip-Disease Evaluation Questionnaire; JHEQ) and health-related QOL (8-item Short Form Health Survey; SF-8TM) were conducted at hospital admission, discharge, and 6 months after discharge.
Results: The SEIQoL Index Score rose significantly with time in THA patients. In the relationships between the SEIQoL Index Score and the JHEQ as well as SF-8TM, differences in significantly related content were seen at each point in time.
Conclusion: The results suggest that there were postoperative improvements in the QOL of elderly THA patients. They also suggest that the content of the QOL that is regarded as important differed at each time point, namely, hospital admission, discharge, and 6 months after discharge.
