Quality of Life for Adolescent Clients Who Undergone Bone Marrow Transplantation at the Specialized Bone Marrow Transplantation Center in Baghdad City: A Cross Sectional Study Al-Bahadli Fadhel Farhan Kadhum1,*, Khalifa Mohammed Fadhel2 1Community Health Nursing, Ministry of Health, Iraq 2Community Health Nursing Department, College of Nursing, University of Baghdad, Iraq *Corresponding author: Fadhel Farhan Kadhum Al-Bahadli. Community Health Nursing, Ministry of Health, Iraq
Online published on 21 February, 2019. Abstract Evaluating the quality of life for teenage clients who undergone bone marrow transplantation at the specialized bone marrow transplantation center in Baghdad City, comparing the quality of life between teenage clients and to determining the relationship between these teenage clients’ quality of life and their demographic characteristics of age, gender and socioeconomic status. A cross sectional design is carried out through the present study in order to achieve the objectives of the study from 4th of March 2018 to 10th of November 2018. The study is conducted on teenage clients who are visiting specialized bone marrow transplantation center in Baghdad city. The pilot study was conducted to determine the questionnaire reliability through the use of split-half techniques and the computation of Cronbach alpha correlation coefficient. The content validity of the instrument was established through penal of (15) experts. Data were analyzed by application of descriptive and inferential statistical methods. In general, the results show poor quality of life(QOL) for teenage clients who undergone bone marrow transplantation(BMT). And significant relationship between teenagers’ age and their (QOL). And no significant relationship between gender, marital status and socio-economic status and their (QOL). Top Keywords Quality of life, Bone marrow transplantation. Top |