THE TYPE, AND THE EFFECT OF THERAPEUTIC EXERCISE ON QUALITY OF LIFE AND FATIGUE IN PATIENTS WITH SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS

D.K. Bonia¹, P. Siaperas¹, S. Sourvinos¹

¹Institute of Occupational Science and Rehabilitation, Metropolitan College, Marousi, Greece

Background: Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) is an autoimmune disease with severe symptoms, such as the fatigue and has a high impact on patient’s quality of life.

Purpose: The aim of this study was to determine the rate, the type, and the effect of therapeutic exercise in patients with SLE on quality of life and fatigue in Greece.

Methods: Three questionnaires were used to measure quality of life, fatigue, and physical activity and 101 patients with SLE answered about their personal choices. For the statistical analysis, the statistical program (IBM) SPSS25 Statistics was used, while for the analysis of the data Kolmogorov-Smirnov, ANOVA, Pearson Correlations and two linear regression multivarieables also were used.

Results: The results showed that the sample average for quality of life was 48.3, for fatigue 41.73 and the total score of physical activity was 1603.79. Furthermore, for vigorous exercise the average was 557.79 of gym training, 30 minutes per day, twice a week, for moderate exercise 824,65, of housekeeping and cleaning, 1 hour per day, twice a week, and for low exercise (walking) 239,87, for 30 minutes, tree times per week. A high average (50.5) of the sample was presented by patients who chose to remain seated during a day.

Conclusions: The conclusions were that the patients with SLE in Greece do not perform systematically vigorous exercise, for moderate exercise chose housekeeping and cleaning, while choosing a sedentarylifestyle brings further problems to their health, although exercise was found to have positive results.

Implications: The implications of this study were that these results have never got published before about patients with SLE in Greece and the data can be used for further analysis and research. Also shows the necessity of exercise in these patients.

Funding acknowledgements: This study was not funded by any source, but it conducted under the Institute of Occupational Science and Rehabilitation.

Keywords:
Exercise
Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Rehabilitation

Topics:
Rheumatology
Health promotion & wellbeing/healthy ageing/physical activity

Did this work require ethics approval? Yes

Institution: Institute of Occupational Science and Rehabilitation by Metropolitan College.

Committee: Collaborative Research Ethics Committee (CREC) of Metropolitan College

Ethics number: 0