PHYSICAL AND PSYCHOSOCIAL EFFECTS OF HEART FAILURE IN PERCEIVED QUALITY OF LIFE

Authors

  • Mailson Marques de Sousa Universidade Federal da Paraíba
  • Jacira dos Santos Oliveira Universidade Federal da Paraíba
  • Maria Julia Guimarães Oliveira Soares Universidade Federal da Paraíba
  • Simone Maria Muniz da Silva Bezerra Universidade de Pernambuco
  • Simone Helena dos Santos Oliveira Universidade Federal da Paraíba

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5380/ce.v22i2.49783

Keywords:

Chronic disease, Heart failure, Quality of life, Life style.

Abstract

The objective was to analyze the health-related quality of life of heart failure patients and to present an intervention proposal for the variables that most affect the perceived quality of life. Descriptive, cross-sectional study with a quantitative approach, involving 84 heart failure patients under outpatient follow-up, undertaken in the city of João Pessoa, PB, Brazil, between January and July 2015. The Minnesota Living Heart Failure Questionnaire was applied. The average total score on the Minnesota Living Heart Failure Questionnaire was 33.13±19.66, revealing a good quality of life. The physical aspects and difficulty to comply with the diet were the variables that most negatively influenced the perceived quality of life. Therapeutic strategies should be proposed with a multidisciplinary focus for the most affected physical and psychosocial aspects, with a view to minimizing the impact of the heart failure on the health-related quality of life.

Author Biographies

Mailson Marques de Sousa, Universidade Federal da Paraíba

Enfermeiro. Doutorando em Enfermagem pelo Programa de Pós-Graduação em Enfermagem da Universidade Federal da Paraíba. 

Jacira dos Santos Oliveira, Universidade Federal da Paraíba

Enfermeira. Doutora em Enfermagem. Professora do Departamento de Enfermagem Clínica da Universidade Federal da Paraíba. 

Maria Julia Guimarães Oliveira Soares, Universidade Federal da Paraíba

Enfermeira. Doutora em Enfermagem. Professora do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Enfermagem da Universidade Federal da Paraíba. 

Simone Maria Muniz da Silva Bezerra, Universidade de Pernambuco

Enfermeira. Doutora em Ciências. Professora do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Enfermagem da Universidade de Pernambuco. 

Simone Helena dos Santos Oliveira, Universidade Federal da Paraíba

Enfermeira. Doutora em Enfermagem. Professora do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Enfermagem da Universidade Federal da Paraíba. João Pessoa-PB-Brasil. 

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Published

2017-06-29

How to Cite

de Sousa, M. M., Oliveira, J. dos S., Soares, M. J. G. O., Bezerra, S. M. M. da S., & Oliveira, S. H. dos S. (2017). PHYSICAL AND PSYCHOSOCIAL EFFECTS OF HEART FAILURE IN PERCEIVED QUALITY OF LIFE. Cogitare Enfermagem, 22(2). https://doi.org/10.5380/ce.v22i2.49783

Issue

Vol. 22 No. 2 (2017)

Section

ORIGINAL ARTICLE

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