Abstract

Background: Quality of life (QoL) is increasingly used to assess the impact of chronic illness and health-care interven- tion. Hypertension is one such chronic disease, which is an important risk factor for cardiovascular disease and found to impair the QoL.
Objective: To assess the QoL in known hypertensive workers of KSRTC, Mandya district.
Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted over a period of 1 year in Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) depots, Mandya district, Karnataka, India. All the 110 hypertensive workers in KSRTC, Mandya division, participated in this study. QoL was assessed by using the Kannada version of WHOQoL-BREF. Result: The mean age of the study subjects was 42.4 ± 10.22 years. Majority of them felt that their overall QoL was neither good nor poor. QoL components can be ordered by their significance as follows: social, psychological, physical, and environmental domains. Occupation showed a significant correlation with psychological domain . Conclusion: Among the various domains of QoL, the highest score was in social domain and the least score in envi- ronmental domain of QoL. Occupation, marital status, and the health condition of the workers were the main factors influencing the QoL.