作者
Neil Oldridge, Stefan Höfer, Hannah McGee, Ronan Conroy, Frank Doyle, Hugo Saner, HeartQoL Project Investigators)
发表日期
2014/1
期刊
European journal of preventive cardiology
卷号
21
期号
1
页码范围
90-97
出版商
Sage Publications
简介
Background
Evaluation of health-related quality of life (HRQL) is important in improving the quality of patient care.
Methods
The HeartQoL Project, with cross-sectional and longitudinal phases, was designed to develop a core ischemic heart disease (IHD) specific HRQL questionnaire, to be called the HeartQoL, for patients with angina, myocardial infarction (MI), or ischemic heart failure. Patients completed a battery of questionnaires and Mokken scaling analysis was used to identify items in the HeartQoL questionnaire.
Results
We enrolled 6384 patients (angina, n = 2111, 33.1%; MI, n = 2351, 36.8%; heart failure, n = 1922, 30.1%) across 22 countries and 15 languages. The HeartQoL questionnaire comprises 14-items with 10-item physical and 4-item emotional subscales which are scored from 0 (poor HRQL) to 3 (better HRQL) with a global score if …
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