Medical Hydrology and Balneology: Environmental Aspects

Quality of life and thermal cure
Marín J (1) , Alonso P (2) , Murria M (2) , Tamayo F (2) , Catalá F (2) , Maraver F (1)
(1) Professional School of Medical Hydrology, Faculty of Medicine, Universidad
Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
(2) Montanejos Spa. Castellón, Spain
jmarin.ebre.ics@gencat.cat
Introduction and Objectives
The quality of life is now and health ‘s target, The therapies that are doing in
the health resort they can get the quality of life ‘s improvement, measure this
variation can help to the health professional to recommend and/or prescribe
these treatments to their patients.
Objective: To assess if there is differences in the measure of the quality of life
before and after of the hydrotherapy ‘s treatment with medicinal mineral water in
a accredited health resort (thermal cure).
Materials and Methods
Design : Descriptive study .
Field: Medical hydrology.
Participants: 68 patients.
Main variables: Demographic variables (age, sex, chronic diseases, surgical interventions).
Measure of the QVRS with the SF36 test questionnaire before and
after of the hydrotherapy ‘s treatment. Dimensions SF-36: physical function (FF),
physic role (RF), physical pain (DC), health standards (SG), vitality (V), social
function (FS), emotional role (RE), mental health (SM).
Results
Mean age: 70 years. No significant differences in the SF-36 test questionnaire
before and after of the thermal cure. Women present lower punctuations in the SF-
36 before and after of the thermal cure. The oncological patients diagnosed and
treaty and stable situation of the oncological disease present lower punctuations in
the SF-36, but after of the thermal cure there is and improvement of this punctuations
in 50% the SF-36 ‘s dimensions (Figure 1).
Conclusions
In that study we can not show a improvement of the quality of life after of
the thermal cure.
The women like previous study have worse quality of life that men.
The oncological patients before of the thermal cure have worse quality of life
that no oncological patients.
Balnea
2012, núm. 6, 361-362
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ISBN: 978-84-669-1887-0
978-84-669-3482-4