HEALTH RELATED QUALITY OF LIFE AND ASSOCIATED FACTORS AMONG ADULTS WITH AND WITHOUT HYPERTENSION IN UNIVERSITY OF GONDAR COMPRHENSIVE SPECIALIZED HOSPITAL AND GONDAR TOWN, NORTHWEST ETHIOPIA 2018.

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Abstract Introduction: Hypertension is a prevalent and often asymptomatic chronic disease and the leading cause of global burden of the population and it become a common and demanding chronic disease that has a wide effect on health related quality of life on physical, psychological, social and environmental domain. Therefore it is important to assess the impact of the disease from patients’ perspective and identify factors affect health-related quality of life of patients with and without hypertension. Objective: - The objective of this study was to assess the health-related quality of life and associated factors among adults with and without hypertension in University of Gondar comprehensive specialized hospital and Gondar town, Northwest Ethiopia 2018. Methods: - Comparative cross-sectional study was conducted at University of Gondar comprehensive specialized hospital and Gondar town population from March to April 2018. A total of 421 adult participants from these 107 hypertensive patients were selected from adult chronic follow up clinic by using systematic random sampling technique and 321 non hypertensive groups from Gondar town. World health organization-quality of life short version questionnaires was used to assess quality of life. The data was entered into Epi-info 7 and analysed with SPSS version 20. Summary statstics, simple and multiple linear regression analysis were performed. Result: A total of 421 study participants were included in the study. The quality of life of hypertension patient score for the physical, psychological, social and environmental domain was 63, 59, 51, and 60 respectively. For non hypertensive were 66, 63, 55, and 67 respectively. Factors associated with domains were age, educational status, wealth index, hypertensive related complication, blood pressure, exercise, and alcohol. Conclusion and recommendation: This study show health related quality of life of hypertensive patients is lower than non hypertensive. Factors affecting health related quality of life were age, body mass index; alcohol and educational level were common for both group. Higher officials shall plan to screening of hypertension at the community. Key words: Health related quality of life, hypertension, University of Gondar