ASSESSMENT OF QUALITY OF LIFE IN COMBINED POST-BURN CICATRICIAL STRICTURES OF THE PHARYNX, ESOPHAGUS, AND STOMACH

This article presents an analysis of quality of life in 68 patients who underwent pharyngocoloplasty for combined post-burn cicatricial strictures of the pharynx, esophagus, and stomach. The authors performed a statistical comparative analysis of the results of patients’ subjective self-assessment and clinical symptoms using the Visual Rating Scale (VRS), the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS), the Spielberger State–Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI), and the SF-36 Health Survey over the course of the study.