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Factors Affecting Health Related Quality of Life in Hospitalized Patients with Heart Failure
This study identified factors affecting health related quality of life (HRQOL) in 300 hospitalized patients with heart failure (HF). Data were collected by the completion of a questionnaire which included patients' characteristics and the Minnesota Living with Heart Failure Questionnaire (MLHFQ...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5671708/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29201489 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/4690458 |
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author | Audi, Georgia Korologou, Aggeliki Koutelekos, Ioannis Vasilopoulos, Georgios Karakostas, Kostas Makrygianaki, Kleanthi Polikandrioti, Maria |
author_facet | Audi, Georgia Korologou, Aggeliki Koutelekos, Ioannis Vasilopoulos, Georgios Karakostas, Kostas Makrygianaki, Kleanthi Polikandrioti, Maria |
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description | This study identified factors affecting health related quality of life (HRQOL) in 300 hospitalized patients with heart failure (HF). Data were collected by the completion of a questionnaire which included patients' characteristics and the Minnesota Living with Heart Failure Questionnaire (MLHFQ). Analysis of data showed that the median of the total score of MLHFQ was 46 and the median of the physical and mental state was 22 and 6, respectively. Also, participants who were householders or had “other” professions had lower score of 17 points and therefore better quality of life compared to patients who were civil/private employees (p < 0.001 and p < 0.001, resp.). Patients not receiving anxiolytics and antidepressants had lower quality of life scores of 6 and 15.5 points, respectively, compared to patients who received (p = 0.003 and p < 0.001, resp.). Patients with no prior hospitalization had lower score of 7 points compared to those with prior hospitalization (p = 0.002), whereas patients not retired due to the disease had higher score of 7 points (p = 0.034). Similar results were observed for the physical and mental state. Improvement of HF patients' quality of life should come to the forefront of clinical practice. |
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spelling | pubmed-56717082017-12-03 Factors Affecting Health Related Quality of Life in Hospitalized Patients with Heart Failure Audi, Georgia Korologou, Aggeliki Koutelekos, Ioannis Vasilopoulos, Georgios Karakostas, Kostas Makrygianaki, Kleanthi Polikandrioti, Maria Cardiol Res Pract Research Article This study identified factors affecting health related quality of life (HRQOL) in 300 hospitalized patients with heart failure (HF). Data were collected by the completion of a questionnaire which included patients' characteristics and the Minnesota Living with Heart Failure Questionnaire (MLHFQ). Analysis of data showed that the median of the total score of MLHFQ was 46 and the median of the physical and mental state was 22 and 6, respectively. Also, participants who were householders or had “other” professions had lower score of 17 points and therefore better quality of life compared to patients who were civil/private employees (p < 0.001 and p < 0.001, resp.). Patients not receiving anxiolytics and antidepressants had lower quality of life scores of 6 and 15.5 points, respectively, compared to patients who received (p = 0.003 and p < 0.001, resp.). Patients with no prior hospitalization had lower score of 7 points compared to those with prior hospitalization (p = 0.002), whereas patients not retired due to the disease had higher score of 7 points (p = 0.034). Similar results were observed for the physical and mental state. Improvement of HF patients' quality of life should come to the forefront of clinical practice. Hindawi 2017 2017-11-01 /pmc/articles/PMC5671708/ /pubmed/29201489 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/4690458 Text en Copyright © 2017 Georgia Audi et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Audi, Georgia Korologou, Aggeliki Koutelekos, Ioannis Vasilopoulos, Georgios Karakostas, Kostas Makrygianaki, Kleanthi Polikandrioti, Maria Factors Affecting Health Related Quality of Life in Hospitalized Patients with Heart Failure |
title | Factors Affecting Health Related Quality of Life in Hospitalized Patients with Heart Failure |
title_full | Factors Affecting Health Related Quality of Life in Hospitalized Patients with Heart Failure |
title_fullStr | Factors Affecting Health Related Quality of Life in Hospitalized Patients with Heart Failure |
title_full_unstemmed | Factors Affecting Health Related Quality of Life in Hospitalized Patients with Heart Failure |
title_short | Factors Affecting Health Related Quality of Life in Hospitalized Patients with Heart Failure |
title_sort | factors affecting health related quality of life in hospitalized patients with heart failure |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5671708/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29201489 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/4690458 |
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