Quality of life in relation to health of female asthmatic patients

Pages:477-480
Vijendra Singh Rastogi, Deepak Pandey and Swati Mishra (SoS in Psychology, Pt. Ravishankar Shukla University, Raipur, Chhatisgarh )

The purpose of the present research work was conducted to examine the relationship between quality of life and health of female asthmatic patients. The sample consisted of 100 female participants selected from the different hospitals in Raipur district of Chhattisgarh. The emotional and physical distress was assessed by CMI Health Questionaire (Wig, Pershad, & Verma, 1973) and to measure Quality of Life the P.G.I. Quality of life scale (Moudgil, Verma, & Kaur, 1998) was used. Regression result indicated that the quality of life is a significant predictor of emotional distress also demographical variable, i.e., education and occupation of participants is significant in this study, in the case of physical distress the quality of life is significant predictor and the physical distress also predicted by the demographical variable education of the participants.