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Assessment of Quality of Life in Patients With Cardiovascular Disease Using the SF-36, MacNew, and EQ-5D-5L Questionnaires

Background Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is responsible for 18 million annual deaths worldwide. CVD affects patients’ Quality of Life (QoL) mainly in physical, emotional and social dimension. Aim To assess the QoL of patients with CVD in Northern Greece, using three different instruments. Methods The...

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Autores principales: Chatzinikolaou, Aikaterini, Tzikas, Stergios, Lavdaniti, Maria
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8517455/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34667665
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.17982
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author Chatzinikolaou, Aikaterini
Tzikas, Stergios
Lavdaniti, Maria
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Lavdaniti, Maria
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description Background Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is responsible for 18 million annual deaths worldwide. CVD affects patients’ Quality of Life (QoL) mainly in physical, emotional and social dimension. Aim To assess the QoL of patients with CVD in Northern Greece, using three different instruments. Methods The study was conducted in one large hospital located in a major Greek city. A convenience sample of 80 patients participated. A questionnaire including Short Form-36 Health Survey (SF-36), EuroQoL 5-dimensions 5-levels (EQ-5D-5L), MacNew, demographic, and clinical characteristics was used to collect data. Results The mean age of the patients was 63.31±14.07. Analysis revealed statistically significant main effects of age on the physical limitations, emotional limitations, social functioning, and pain. Also, the analysis showed significant main effects of education on the MacNew Physical, MacNew Social, and the EQ-5D-5L index (p< 0.05). Participants who had graduated primary school had significantly lower quality of life scores than higher education graduates in the MacNew physical (p< 0.02). Furthermore, in the SF-36 pain subscale, the heart failure group had a significantly lower quality of life than the other heart diseases (p= 0.03). Conclusion Quality of life is affected by factors such as age, type of heart disease, therapy, and comorbidities. Health care providers should be knowledgeable of the factors that affect the quality of life sectors (physical, emotional, and social life) of patients with CVD in order to meet their needs and have the most suitable treatment.
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spelling pubmed-85174552021-10-18 Assessment of Quality of Life in Patients With Cardiovascular Disease Using the SF-36, MacNew, and EQ-5D-5L Questionnaires Chatzinikolaou, Aikaterini Tzikas, Stergios Lavdaniti, Maria Cureus Cardiology Background Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is responsible for 18 million annual deaths worldwide. CVD affects patients’ Quality of Life (QoL) mainly in physical, emotional and social dimension. Aim To assess the QoL of patients with CVD in Northern Greece, using three different instruments. Methods The study was conducted in one large hospital located in a major Greek city. A convenience sample of 80 patients participated. A questionnaire including Short Form-36 Health Survey (SF-36), EuroQoL 5-dimensions 5-levels (EQ-5D-5L), MacNew, demographic, and clinical characteristics was used to collect data. Results The mean age of the patients was 63.31±14.07. Analysis revealed statistically significant main effects of age on the physical limitations, emotional limitations, social functioning, and pain. Also, the analysis showed significant main effects of education on the MacNew Physical, MacNew Social, and the EQ-5D-5L index (p< 0.05). Participants who had graduated primary school had significantly lower quality of life scores than higher education graduates in the MacNew physical (p< 0.02). Furthermore, in the SF-36 pain subscale, the heart failure group had a significantly lower quality of life than the other heart diseases (p= 0.03). Conclusion Quality of life is affected by factors such as age, type of heart disease, therapy, and comorbidities. Health care providers should be knowledgeable of the factors that affect the quality of life sectors (physical, emotional, and social life) of patients with CVD in order to meet their needs and have the most suitable treatment. Cureus 2021-09-14 /pmc/articles/PMC8517455/ /pubmed/34667665 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.17982 Text en Copyright © 2021, Chatzinikolaou et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Chatzinikolaou, Aikaterini
Tzikas, Stergios
Lavdaniti, Maria
Assessment of Quality of Life in Patients With Cardiovascular Disease Using the SF-36, MacNew, and EQ-5D-5L Questionnaires
title Assessment of Quality of Life in Patients With Cardiovascular Disease Using the SF-36, MacNew, and EQ-5D-5L Questionnaires
title_full Assessment of Quality of Life in Patients With Cardiovascular Disease Using the SF-36, MacNew, and EQ-5D-5L Questionnaires
title_fullStr Assessment of Quality of Life in Patients With Cardiovascular Disease Using the SF-36, MacNew, and EQ-5D-5L Questionnaires
title_full_unstemmed Assessment of Quality of Life in Patients With Cardiovascular Disease Using the SF-36, MacNew, and EQ-5D-5L Questionnaires
title_short Assessment of Quality of Life in Patients With Cardiovascular Disease Using the SF-36, MacNew, and EQ-5D-5L Questionnaires
title_sort assessment of quality of life in patients with cardiovascular disease using the sf-36, macnew, and eq-5d-5l questionnaires
topic Cardiology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8517455/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34667665
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.17982
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