Relationship between Health-Promoting Lifestyle and Quality of Life in Urolithiasis Patients

Background: Urolithiasis is one of the most common urological diagnoses. It represents a significant clinical and economic challenge for health care systems and affects a patient’s Quality of Life (QOL). Lifestyle is a unique configuration of everyday behavior, which largely depends on the QOL available. As QOL should be an important outcome of urolithiasis management and there are few studies about that in these patients, this study was aimed at investigating the relationship between the health-promoting lifestyle and the QOL in urolithiasis patients. Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted in Rasht hospitals. 300 patients with urinary tract stones participated in this study. The questionnaire included three parts of demographic variables, the SF-12 QOL questionnaire and the health-promotion lifestyle profile. The collected data were analyzed using T-test, ANOVA, Pearson and linear regression. In all the variables, the significance level was considered p<0.05. Results: The overall QOL score was 36.96±15.10 and the overall score for health-promoting lifestyle was 2.57±0.47 There was a significant relationship between the QOL and health-promoting lifestyle. Multivariate linear regression showed that health-promotion lifestyle, age and level of education were the predictors of QOL. Conclusion: The present study demonstrated that a better lifestyle and a higher level of education can improve the QOL, therefore, to manage and prevent the recurrence of the disease, improving the lifestyle and increasing awareness regarding the disease is necessary