Using the St. George Respiratory Questionnaire To Ascertain Health Quality in Persons With Treated Pulmonary Tuberculosis

Health Status and Quality of Life in Tuberculosis: Systematic Review of Study Design, Instruments, Measuring Properties and Outcomes

“…All these articles were published in English. The data was based on comparative studies of TB population from China , two from Malaysia [18,23], five from India [14,15,29,[35][36][37][38], four from Canada [5,24,25,30] one form each UK [17] Pakistan [35], Spain [36] Taiwan [28] South Africa [37] and Turkey [39]. Among the selected articles fourteen studies were cross sectional [5,14,26,27,30,33,[34][35][36][37][38][39][40] and sixteen were prospective cohort based studies [15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26]29,31,32,41].…”

“…An article published by Chamla et al [16] described the comparison of TB population group from general population. Another study used normative data from the Canadian population as the reference group and two studies included people with LTBI controls [20,30,39]. The sample size varied among all the studies and only one study reported statistical analysis of sample size [30].…”

“…In this review, all kinds of TB patients pulmonary TB, extra pulmonary TB, active TB disease, late TB infection, current TB and recurrent TB were included. The methodology quality of six studies [15,23,26,27,37,39] was validated by the use of COSMIN check list and results were demonstrated on the scale from poor to excellent (Tables 5 and 6). None of these studies included the measurement error while one study showed cross cultural validity [26] measures mostly focused on perceptions which are subjective and without a gold standard.…”

“…SF-36 is a generic health outcomes measure consisting of 36 items aggregated into eight sub-scales of PF (physical functioning), RP (role physical), BP (body pain), GH (general health), VT (vitality), SF (social functioning), RE (role emotion) and MH (mental health) [43]. A long medical outcome study (MOS) instrument was used in USA [39] which covered multiple dimensions including physical and emotional wellbeing [43]. SF-36 was developed from subsets from the MOS instrument [6].…”

“…Response options were presented on 3 point scale and equal weightage were given to each item while calculating the 2 domain score and the total score [29]. Pasipanodya et al [39] used St. George Questionnaires (SGRQ) in 100 patients with PTB. It is an extensively used specific instrument for measuring HRQOL in patients with COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) and other types of respiratory disorders [39].…”