Factors relating with the K-Level and quality of life of the Transtibial Amputees from Siriraj Hospital
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https://doi.org/10.14456/jmu.2025.4Keywords:
Below-knee amputation, Transtibial prosthesis, Quality of life of social domain, K-levelAbstract
Background: Nowadays, below-knee amputees have increased. The major cause of the lower limb amputation is diabetes mellitus. If your patient and multidisciplinary teams have not cooperated since post-operative, problems will occur such as physical changes. Physical transition means loss of balance impairment of the proprioception and knee joint flexion contracture etc. If patients can take care themselves and receive the proper prosthetics, they will return to working good activity of daily living and quality of life.
Objective: To comparative the factors that effects K-levels and quality of life in the transtibial amputees who received their prosthetics from Siriraj Hospital
Methods: This research is a cross-sectional analytical study. Participants were the below-knee amputees who passed the inclusion criteria. All the participants received the interview. The data has been 3 sections in terms of the general information, the survey of the prosthetic’s users at present and WHOQOL-BREF-THAI. Our research used the Independent-Samples Kruskal-Wallis Test for pairwise comparison of the K-levels and Multiple Linear Regression Analysis for the quality of life (social domain).
Results: Age, walking distance and the social domain of the quality of life affected the participants’ K-levels statistically significant. Transtibial amputees who have not been diagnosed with diabetes mellitus and a lot of the years in the prosthesis’ duration (year) affected the quality of life in social domain.
Conclusions: Factors that decreased the participants’ K-level obviously were experienced prosthetic user has increased with age and cause of amputation with diabetes. From these factors leaded to the transtibial amputee’s quality of life. If the cause of amputation were from the others and the prosthesis’s duration more than one year that would be enhanced the quality of life.
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