Abstract

Anxiety, Depression and Quality of Life in Adults with Sickle Cell Disease

Out of the 78 patients enrolled in this study, 50% of them were males. The median age was 28.2 years. Eleven (14.1%) and 23 (29.5%) patients had anxiety and mental depression respectively. Fifty (64.1%) and 61 (78.2%) patients had a bad mental QDV and physical QDV respectively. Factors not directly linked to anxiety were: celibacy, unsatisfactory social support, the presence of complications of sickle cell disease and having children. Factors not directly linked to depression were: unsatisfactory social support, the presence of current complications linked to sickle cell disease, the number of blood transfusions received within the last 12 months, the presence of a painful crisis within the last 30 days, low age. Factors not directly linked to a bad quality of physical life were: the number of admission in emergency hospital settings within the last 12 months and increasing age. Factors not directly linked to a bad quality of mental life were: unsatisfactory social support, having a complication linked to sickle cell disease, being hospitalized and transfused blood within the last 12 months, had a crisis within the last 30 days and celibacy.


Author(s): Chetcha Chemegni B, Kamga Olen JPO, Um Nyobe LJ, Ntone Enyime F, Mbanya D

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