Caracterización de la calidad de vida relacionada con la salud en pacientes con artrosis de miembro inferior y validación de nuevas herramientas para su elevación

Résumé

Osteoarthritis of the lower limb (OALL) is the major cause of pain and functional disability in the world population and its impact in the form of disease burden is extraordinary, assuming a loss in disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) of 0.69% of all DALYs lost in the world population in 2010.The impact of osteoarthritis on quality of life can be assessed with tools that incorporate the patient's own perspective.The generic tools to assess Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) have a high degree of development and use, but those instruments specific to a certain clinical condition, such as the Oxford Hip Score (OHS) questionnaire or the Oxford Knee Score (OKS), can be more useful to discriminate the situation of subjects with said disease and more sensitive to the changes that occur.The use of these tools requires a process that ensures that they are useful for their purpose, so their psychometric properties must be evaluated. These conditions lead us to find pertinent the study of the impact on health, from the patient's perspective, of lower limb osteoarthritis and the evaluation of new HRQL assessment tools, specific for this clinical condition...