Open AccessImpact of Clinical Characteristics on Quality of Life of Heart Failure Patients
Author(s) -
Yaman Walid Kassab,
Muhammad Zahid Iqbal,
Abdul Haseeb,
Muhammad Umer Abdul Moiz,
Amra Salahuddin,
Abdullah Ehsan,
Haroon Khalid Syed,
Shashidharan Me,
Krupavaram Bethala,
Ganesh Sritheran Paneerselvam,
Muhammad Shahid Iqbal
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of pharmaceutical research international
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2456-9119
DOI - 10.9734/jpri/2021/v33i60b35661
Subject(s) - heart failure , medicine , dyslipidemia , quality of life (healthcare) , diabetes mellitus , spearman's rank correlation coefficient , correlation , heart disease , statistical significance , physical therapy , disease , statistics , geometry , nursing , mathematics , endocrinology
Objective: This study aimed to determine impact of clinical characteristics on quality of life (QoL) in heart failure patients.
Methods: A cross-sectional study using a newly developed and validated research tool and Minnesota Living with Heart Failure (MLHF) research tool, was conducted in heart failure patients. Data was collected by convenience sampling method. Descriptive, comparative, and inferential statistics were used by Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) ver. 24 to determine the sociodemographic correlates of QoL in heart failure patients.
Results: The majority of the studied heart failure patients were male 103 (58.2%) and the females were 74 (41.8%). The most of the studied heart failure patients were from > 60 years of age group 73 (41.2%). In Spearman’s correlation analysis, statistically non-significant (p >0.05), weak and positive associations were observed. The studied clinical variables like disease duration, total no. of comorbidities, types of comorbidities i.e., HPT, dyslipidemia, renal problems, Diabetes mellitus (DM) and others, hospital admissions, no. of current medications were found to have positive correlation with patients overall QoL.
Conclusion: The study results concluded a weak but positive correlation between various studied clinical characteristics and QoL of the heart failure patients.