Fabiana Coelho Couto Rocha Corrêa, Isabella Scarlatelli Telles Pires Nader, Laura Candeia Barbosa Muniz, Roberta Martins Lopes, Elirez Bezerra da Silva
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Abstract
Objective: To verify the effect of physical exercise on the quality of life of patients with liver cirrhosis (LC).
Methods: the sample included controlled and randomized experimental studies of individuals with LC, at any stage of the disease, over 18 years of age, of both sexes, who performed any type of physical exercise compared to any other intervention or no intervention, with quality of life as the outcome assessed by the Chronic Liver Disease Questionnaire (CLDQ). The search for articles was conducted in 11 databases. The descriptors considered for the search were physical exercise, quality of life, liver cirrhosis, and their synonyms. The methodological quality and study bias were assessed using the Jadad scale and the RoB 2 scale, respectively. Review Manager 5.4 was used for the meta-analysis of the data. Quality of life was considered a continuous variable. The mean difference was considered as the effect measure. The analysis model was fixed-effect. The confidence level adopted was .05. The level of evidence for the meta-analysis results was assessed using the GRADE tool.
Results: A meta-analysis of five studies, in which 153 participants with LC, of which 83 belonged to the physical exercise group and 70 to the control group, showed that the experimental group that performed physical exercise significantly increased quality of life by 0.46 [0.09 to 0.84]; P=.02. The level of evidence of the meta-analysis was considered high.
Conclusion: Physical exercise led to an improvement in the health-related quality of life of patients with LC.
期刊介绍:
The journal Arquivos de Gastroenterologia (Archives of Gastroenterology), a quarterly journal, is the Official Publication of the Instituto Brasileiro de Estudos e Pesquisas de Gastroenterologia IBEPEGE (Brazilian Institute for Studies and Research in Gastroenterology), Colégio Brasileiro de Cirurgia Digestiva - CBCD (Brazilian College of Digestive Surgery) and of the Sociedade Brasileira de Motilidade Digestiva - SBMD (Brazilian Digestive Motility Society). It is dedicated to the publishing of scientific papers by national and foreign researchers who are in agreement with the aim of the journal as well as with its editorial policies.