ABSTRACT
The term ‘quality of life’ intuitively evokes a sense of contentment that is influenced by economical, mental and physical status. Since the World Health Organization’s (WHO) definition of health in 1948 as ‘a state of complete physical, mental and social wellbeing and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity’, health-related quality of life (HRQOL) has come to represent a multidimensional construct pertaining to four distinct areas of wellbeing: physical, psychological, emotional and social.
