Quality of life and social support in congestive heart failure patients and healthy people
Introduction: Congestive heart failure (CHF) is one of the most important chronic diseases in the ‎world that these patients are faced with various physical and psychological stressful factors which ‎leads to decreasing quality of life. Social support by all sources can lead to decre...
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| description | Introduction: Congestive heart failure (CHF) is one of the most important chronic diseases in the ‎world that these patients are faced with various physical and psychological stressful factors which ‎leads to decreasing quality of life. Social support by all sources can lead to decreasing problems in ‎CHF patients and increasing quality of life in them
Objective: The aim of study was to determine quality of life in CHF patients and comparing it with ‎QOL of healthy people and also determine the social support of CHF patients, and measuring the ‎relationship between QOL and social support in CHF patients. ‎
Methods: This is a correlationalstudy and samples were chosen by simple sampling. For this ‎purpose, ‎‏125‏‎ eligible CHF patients who referred to hospitals in city of Maragheh, and ‎‏125‏‎ healthy ‎people were selected simultaneously during a period of ten months. Data were collected using an ‎integrated three part questionnaire including demographics, quality of life, and social support ‎completed by interview. Data after collection were analyzed using SPSS (Ver.‎‏15‏‎), descriptive ‎statistics (Mean. Median, Frequency, Standard Deviation) and Inferential statistics (T-independent ‎test, Chi-square, Exact Fisher test, Pearson correlational test, Multiple Regression.‎
Results: Findings indicated that quality of life was undesirable in ‎‏49.6%‏‎ and had significant ‎difference with QOL of healthy people(P<‎‏0.0001‏‎). In subsectors of quality of life, social dimension ‎was desirable in ‎‏83.2%‏‎ of patients and showed no significant difference with healthy people, while ‎in physical dimension (‎‏63.2%‏‎) and psychological dimension (‎‏63.2%‏‎) in most of the patients were ‎undesirable and in most of the healthy people were desirable. Social support in ‎‏51.2%‏‎ of CHF ‎patients were desirable, and there was a direct and significant relationship between these two ‎variables (p<‎‏0.03‏‎, r = ‎‏0.2‏‎).
‎ Conclusion: In attention to positive relationship between QOL and social support it is suggested ‎that health care planners and managers in addition to increasing instrumental supports, emotional ‎and informational support should be promoted in order to improve patients quality of life. ‎ |
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| spelling | doaj-art-ddbe9d0b707a48cfb3ff78d89b9780a52025-01-02T16:35:20ZengGuilan University of Medical SciencesJournal of Holistic Nursing and Midwifery2588-37122588-37202013-09-012311321Quality of life and social support in congestive heart failure patients and healthy peoplemEHDI Heidarzadeh0pARKHIDEH Hasani1aZIZEH Rahimzadeh2aKRAM Ghahramanian3Jafar Kolahdouzi Pour4Ilnaz Yousefi5 Introduction: Congestive heart failure (CHF) is one of the most important chronic diseases in the ‎world that these patients are faced with various physical and psychological stressful factors which ‎leads to decreasing quality of life. Social support by all sources can lead to decreasing problems in ‎CHF patients and increasing quality of life in them Objective: The aim of study was to determine quality of life in CHF patients and comparing it with ‎QOL of healthy people and also determine the social support of CHF patients, and measuring the ‎relationship between QOL and social support in CHF patients. ‎ Methods: This is a correlationalstudy and samples were chosen by simple sampling. For this ‎purpose, ‎‏125‏‎ eligible CHF patients who referred to hospitals in city of Maragheh, and ‎‏125‏‎ healthy ‎people were selected simultaneously during a period of ten months. Data were collected using an ‎integrated three part questionnaire including demographics, quality of life, and social support ‎completed by interview. Data after collection were analyzed using SPSS (Ver.‎‏15‏‎), descriptive ‎statistics (Mean. Median, Frequency, Standard Deviation) and Inferential statistics (T-independent ‎test, Chi-square, Exact Fisher test, Pearson correlational test, Multiple Regression.‎ Results: Findings indicated that quality of life was undesirable in ‎‏49.6%‏‎ and had significant ‎difference with QOL of healthy people(P<‎‏0.0001‏‎). In subsectors of quality of life, social dimension ‎was desirable in ‎‏83.2%‏‎ of patients and showed no significant difference with healthy people, while ‎in physical dimension (‎‏63.2%‏‎) and psychological dimension (‎‏63.2%‏‎) in most of the patients were ‎undesirable and in most of the healthy people were desirable. Social support in ‎‏51.2%‏‎ of CHF ‎patients were desirable, and there was a direct and significant relationship between these two ‎variables (p<‎‏0.03‏‎, r = ‎‏0.2‏‎). ‎ Conclusion: In attention to positive relationship between QOL and social support it is suggested ‎that health care planners and managers in addition to increasing instrumental supports, emotional ‎and informational support should be promoted in order to improve patients quality of life. ‎http://hnmj.gums.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-243-12&slc_lang=en&sid=1Heart Failure / Quality of life / Social Support |
| spellingShingle | mEHDI Heidarzadeh pARKHIDEH Hasani aZIZEH Rahimzadeh aKRAM Ghahramanian Jafar Kolahdouzi Pour Ilnaz Yousefi Quality of life and social support in congestive heart failure patients and healthy people Journal of Holistic Nursing and Midwifery Heart Failure / Quality of life / Social Support |
| title | Quality of life and social support in congestive heart failure patients and healthy people |
| title_full | Quality of life and social support in congestive heart failure patients and healthy people |
| title_fullStr | Quality of life and social support in congestive heart failure patients and healthy people |
| title_full_unstemmed | Quality of life and social support in congestive heart failure patients and healthy people |
| title_short | Quality of life and social support in congestive heart failure patients and healthy people |
| title_sort | quality of life and social support in congestive heart failure patients and healthy people |
| topic | Heart Failure / Quality of life / Social Support |
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