Background: Heart failure is an escalating health problem around the world. Despite
significant scientific advances, heart failure patients experience multiple physical and …

Background and Purpose: Many patients with heart failure (HF) experience physical
symptoms, poor health-related quality of life (HRQOL), and high rates of hospitalization …

Little is known about the burden of illness associated with advanced congestive heart failure
(CHF). Understanding the needs of this population requires further information about …

BACKGROUND: Little is known about symptoms and their burden in outpatients with chronic
heart failure. Diverse symptoms may be associated with poor heart failure-related quality of …

Introduction: Because of the lack of a cure for patients with chronic heart failure (HF), there
has been a progressive interest in the use of health-related quality of life (Hr-QoL) as …

Aim To understand quality of life (QOL) and the effects of sociodemographics, disease
severity, physical symptoms (dyspnea and fatigue), and depression on QOL of heart failure …

Background Physical symptoms are common and distressing problems for patients with
heart failure and may be the strongest predictor of health-related quality of life. Identification …

This study identified factors affecting health related quality of life (HRQOL) in 300
hospitalized patients with heart failure (HF). Data were collected by the completion of a …

Background: A main goal in nursing care of persons with chronic heart failure (HF) is to
strengthen their health related quality of life (HRQoL). This presupposes knowledge about …

BACKGROUND: Hypothetically, most of the effects of heart failure on quality of life might be
attributed to symptoms produced by the pathology. Relationships between measures of …