أثر اضطرابات القلق والاكتئاب في جودة حياة المرضى في مدينة كربلاء المقدسة

Impact of Anxiety and Depression Illnesses Upon Quality of Life of Patients in Holy Kerbala City

Quality of Life is a concept that is considered broad multidimensional which have subjective evaluations of all life aspects positively and negatively. This study was done to understand the impact of anxiety and depression Ill-nesses up on quality of life of patients in holy kerbala city. This study was conducted for the purpose of comparing anxiety and depression and their im-pact on quality of life of such patients.
Quantitative considered, the study was completed with 104 patients, two groups 52 patients with anxiety disorder, 52 patients with depression dis-order to find out the impact of anxiety and depression Illnesses up on the qual-ity of life of psychiatric patients. The study was done in Al-Hassan Al-Mujtaba Teaching Hospital at kerbala city, Iraq, from 5 December 2021 to 30 Septem-ber 2022. This study uses three scales; Taylor for anxiety, Beck Depression Inventory BDI-II, and World Health Organization Quality-of-Life Scale-Brief the Reliability was sequentially 0.837, 0.747, 0.812. Also the instruments are valid; it was forwarded to 11 experts in various specializations and from sev-eral colleges in Iraq.
The results showed unacceptable level of quality of life for anxiety group which was 44.04 and for depression group was 35.47. Anxiety and de-pression groups have a negative impact on quality of life, and there is a differ-ence in quality of life for the two groups according to their demographic char-acteristics. The study concludes that anxiety, depression and quality of life are affected by demographic factors, and this effect varies according to the disor-der.
The study recommended to find out effective solutions to reduce anxi-ety and depression in patients to improve the quality of life, such as activating the new technology for communication and following up the patients, and also activate the group therapy