Quality of Life for Adult Clients with Obesity Who Attend Consultation Clinics at Teaching Hospitals in Al-Diwaniya City

Abstract

           Obesity is a complex disease that involves the build-up of excess fat in the adipose tissue leading to deterioration in the state of health. Caused by multifactorial: genetic, behavioral, metabolic, cultural, and social and are associated with general declines in quality of life, be they physical, social, or psychological. The study aimed to assess quality of life for adult clients with obesity who attend consultation clinics at teaching hospitals in Al-Diwaniya City. A descriptive cross-sectional design used to identify quality of life level for adult clients with obesity for the periods of has been carried out from (December 5^th, 2020 to April 20^th, 2021). The convenience ‘’non-probability’’ sample used to select 262 adult clients with obesity who were recruited from teaching hospitals in Al-Diwaniya City, Iraq.

        The study revealed that there is an effect of obesity on the quality of life, where reported less than half reported moderate level quality of life (n = 124؛ 47%), followed by those who reported poor level (n = 117 %45 ؛) and those who reported good level (n= 218؛%). Additionally, the results indicated that the domains most affected by obesity were self-esteem and sexual life.  Furthermore, there are statistically significant between the quality of life and gender, occupation, Marital Status, family history of obesity. Also, the findings show that quality of life was highly associated with the client’s body mass index at (p-value =0.000). The researchers recommends urging broadcasts of educational programs that limit the phenomenon of bullying on obese people by audiovisual and readable media.