Quality of life among Hepatitis C patients on interferon therapy

Background: hepatitis c is amongst significant causes of health related mortality and morbidity with ever increasing prevalence. patients on interferon (ifn) therapy are assessed constantly for viral clearance but not much attention is paid on impaired health-related quality of life (hrqol). health-related quality of life has been helpful in measuring the effect of chc (chronic hepatitis c) on well-being of the patient and in observing a response to treatment. aim: to know the quality of life among hepatitis c patients on inf therapy. method: this was a cross-sectional health facility based study performed in march,2016 among 100 hepatitis c patients visiting nishtar hospital multan. the data was collected through questionnaire and analyzed by spss 20.0. results: out of 100 patients of hepatitis c,44% were 31-40 years old,59% were females and 63% were illiterate. out of these patients,24% had good health,56% had average and 20.0% had poor health. conclusion: generally the quality of life was observed satisfactory among patients because most of them had average or good health and some of them had poor health.