Open AccessOptimism and Quality of Life among Cardiovascular Disorder Patients
Author(s) -
Sabiha Yasmeen,
Mohd. Ilyas Khan
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
international journal of indian psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2349-3429
pISSN - 2348-5396
DOI - 10.25215/0403.009
Subject(s) - optimism , quality of life (healthcare) , coronary artery disease , disease , medicine , stroke (engine) , psychology , clinical psychology , scale (ratio) , psychiatry , gerontology , social psychology , mechanical engineering , physics , nursing , quantum mechanics , engineering
The role of psychological factors in the occurrence of Cardiovascular Disorder has been, widely excepted. CVD is a family of diseases that includes hypertension, coronary artery disease (CAD) and stroke. The present study is an attempt to investigate the role of optimism on quality of life among Cardiovascular Disorder patients. 100 patients were comprised as the sample for this investigation. The sample further categorized in terms of gender i.e. male and female. LOT – Revised version of the original LOT (Scheier & Carver 1992) and World Health Organization quality of life questionnaire-short version (WHOQOL-BREF) of the WHOQOL-100 SCALE (The WHOQOL Group, 1993a; 1993b) were used. The data will be analyzed by using appropriate statistical techniques. It is expected that optimism will improve the quality of life among cardiovascular disorder patients.