Quality of life and psychological distress in the patient with celiac disease

• Autores: Claudia Herrera de Guise, Francesc Casellas Jordá
• Localización: Advances in the Understanding of Gluten related Pathology and the Evolution of Gluten-Free Foods / Eduardo Arranz Sanz (ed. lit.), Fernando Fernández Bañares (aut.), Cristina M. Rosell (aut.), Luis Rodrigo Sáez (aut.), Amado Salvador Peña (aut.), 2015, ISBN 978-84-943418-2-3, págs. 425-440
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Celiac disease (CD) is a chronic disorder that can impact patients inmany ways including their health-related quality of life (HRQOL).There are several factors that can affect HRQOL in CD patients; frommanifestations of the disease to the compliance with a gluten-free-diet.Furthermore, there has been a beneficial response to treatment with agluten-free diet. Measuring HRQOL in celiac disease offers importantadvantages, not only for healthcare providers and caregivers but alsofor patients. The purpose of focusing on HRQOL is to go beyond thepresence and severity of symptoms of disease or side-effects oftreatment, examining how patients perceive and experience thesemanifestations in their daily lives. We describe the instruments tomeasure HRQOL in CD patients and recent studies that evaluate theimpact that CD has on patient’s HRQOL.