作者
Shir Lynn Lim, Kai Lee Woo, Eleanor Lim, Faclin Ng, Mark Y Chan, Mihir Gandhi
发表日期
2020/12
期刊
Health and quality of life outcomes
卷号
18
页码范围
1-7
出版商
BioMed Central
简介
Background
Little is known about the impact of the global coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on patients with cardiovascular disease (CVD), the biggest global killer and major risk factor for severe COVID-19 infections. We aim to explore the indirect consequences of COVID-19 on health-related quality of life (HRQoL) of patients with CVD.
Methods
Eighty-one adult outpatients with CVD were assessed using the EQ-5D, a generic health status instrument with five dimensions (mobility, self-care, usual activities, pain/discomfort, anxiety/depression), before and during the pandemic. Changes in the EQ-5D dimensional responses were compared categorically as well as using the dimension-specific sum-score (range 1–3, with a higher score indicating worse health). The responses and sum-score were compared using the exact test of symmetry …
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