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Quality of Life in Patients with Heart Failure
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K Abbasi   , E Mohammadi * , H Sadeghian , M Gholami Fesharaki |
| Faculty of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran. , Emohamade@modares.ac.ir |
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Abstract: (13916 Views) |
| Introduction: Cardiovascular diseases are the most important cause of death in worldwide. The main outcome of the heart failure is impaired functional abilities and limitations in job, family and community, and finally decline of the patients quality of life. Because of the nature of the chronic, progressive and irreversible disease, the goal of treatment and care is improving the patients quality of life. Despite costly treatment and care, full information regarding the quality of life in these patients is not available. Therefore, this study aimed to determine the quality of life in patients with heart failure and related factors was designed. Method: This study is a analytical cross-sectional study that, samples were selected with convenient method among patients referred to Tehran Heart Center at the beginning of June to the end of September 2014. 105 heart failure patients with ejection fraction of the heart less than 30% and functional class 3 and 4 were selected. Data collection with quality of life of patients with heart failure questionnaire Minnesota (MLHFQ) was performed. To analyze the data, descriptive and inferential statistics were used by the software SPSSver20. Results: 53/3% of patients aged over 60 years (old). Most patients were male (68/57%), married (62/9%) and ejection fraction of 20-10 percent (80%). The average quality of life in physical, psychological, socioeconomic, and total quality of life as 28/21, 10/45, 7/17 and 45/94. Analysis of the data revealed that among most demographic variables (age, sex, marital status, education level, occupation, life type, duration of illness, number of hospitalizations, smoking, alcohol and drugs) with three dimensions and total average of quality of life there is a significant relationship. Conclusion: Quality of life in patients with heart failure has improved compared to previous studies that suggest an effect of treatment and care, but the quality of life can not be determined as suitable, so plan to improve the quality of life in patients with heart failure and control of modifiable variables in these patients is necessary. |
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| Keywords: Heart Failure, Quality of Life, Nurse |
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Type of Study: Community Health Nursing |
Subject:
nursing
Received: 2016/05/25 | Accepted: 2017/12/31 | Published: 2017/12/31
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