Health related quality of life among the rana plaza tragedy survivors in the community

Abstract

Purpose: The purpose of the study was to identify the Health related Quality of life among the Rana Plaza tragedy survivors in the community. Objective: The objectives of the study were to observe the physical functioning, role of physical health, role of emotion, vitality, mental health, social functioning, bodily pain and general health of the participants. Methodology: The study was conducted through Cross-sectional study design among 50 participants of Rana Plaza survivors who were selected by convenient sampling technique from savar, Dhamrai upozilla and manikgonj district by a structured questionnaire with face to face interview. SF-36 questionnaire was used to conduct the research and data was analysed by SPSS version 20 and Microsoft Excel Work 2013. Results: In this research minimum age of the participants was 20 years and maximum age was 52 years. Among that the mean age of the participant’s was 32.74 years and SD was 6.963. Among 50 participants, most of them (68%) were completed primary education level. Among the participants most of them were married (98%) and 42% was employed. Health Related Quality of life of survivors was detected by a questionnaire SF36 and there was 8 dimensions, from these dimensions the mean score of physical functioning was 54.50%, Role limitation due to physical health was 45.75%, Role limitation due to emotional problem was 75.40%, Energy or fatigue was 55.73%, Emotional well-being was 56.98%, Social functioning was 53.60%, Pain was 45.15%, and lastly general health was 40.20%. According to SF-36 score range there physical health was poor and mental health was fair. Conclusion: Among the participants who were working on the community they are now still suffering post-traumatic stress. Though the governmental and non-governmental organization helped them lot but that was not sufficient for them. some of them requaire further treatmeant but they do not continue thier treatment due to thier poor economical status and this situation indirectly creat a bad effect into their life. Keywords: Rana Plaza survivors, Health Related Quality of life of survivors, SF-36, Abstract