ASSESSMENT OF THE QUALITY OF LIFE IN CHILDREN AFTER SURGICAL TREATMENT OF HIRSHPRUNG DISEASE

Abstract

The article presents the results of studying the quality of life and functional activity of children with Hirschsprung's disease who underwent surgical treatment according to the classical Soave-Lenyushkin method and the improved De La Torre-Ortega method. The quality of life of children undergoing surgical treatment was assessed using the adapted PedsQL™4.0 scale; consisting of 21 questions assessing physical, emotional, social and role functions. An analysis of the quality of life of children with Hirschsprung's disease revealed a significant increase in indicators on all scales when using the improved technique of the De La Torre-Ortega operation up to 84.1-92.3% in relation to the group of healthy children with a change in the total score from 52.8±10 .0 to 70.4±6.4 (t=6.79; p<0.001).