Cure8 research brief
This study shows that patients' comfort partly explains how clinical disease activity affects quality of life in ulcerative colitis, suggesting comfort-focused nursing care could help patients feel better even when disease activity is higher.
Adult patients with ulcerative colitis, outpatient gastroenterology nurses and clinicians, and researchers interested in patient-reported outcomes and supportive care interventions.
A cross-sectional analysis of 223 adults with ulcerative colitis seen in an outpatient clinic in Western Türkiye measured disease activity, comfort, patient activation, and quality of life with validated scales.
Disease activity was strongly negatively correlated with quality of life and comfort; comfort was strongly positively correlated with quality of life.
Mediation analysis indicated comfort partially mediated the association between disease activity and quality of life, while patient activation did not significantly mediate the relationship in the tested serial model.
Implications for care The findings highlight comfort as an actionable target for nursing and supportive care interventions (physical, emotional, and psychological) to help buffer the effects of active disease on quality of life. This study is cross-sectional, so it describes associations rather than proving that improving comfort will change outcomes.
this is a cross-sectional study from a single outpatient clinic; it shows associations measured at one time point and cannot establish causation. The article abstract and extracted text form the basis of this brief (structured content depth: abstract).
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