PMID- 33519251
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
LR  - 20220420
IS  - 1179-1594 (Print)
IS  - 1179-1594 (Electronic)
IS  - 1179-1594 (Linking)
VI  - 14
DP  - 2021
TI  - Health-Related Quality of Life and Associated Factors Among Adult Patients with 
      Heart Failure in Wolaita Zone Governmental Hospitals, Southern Ethiopia.
PG  - 263-271
LID - 10.2147/RMHP.S288326 [doi]
AB  - BACKGROUND: Knowing how heart failure affects patients' quality of life and its 
      associated factors are crucial for a better patient-centred approach and 
      management. Therefore, this study aims to assess health-related quality of life 
      and its associated factors among adult heart failure patients in southern 
      Ethiopia hospitals. METHODS: The facility-based cross-sectional study design was 
      conducted in Wolaita zone governmental hospitals from March to April 2018. The 
      population was all adult heart failure patients in the chronic illness follow-up 
      clinic and inpatient department. All adult heart failure patients on follow-up 
      clinic and inpatient departments who have at least a 6-month follow-up were 
      included in the study. In contrast, patients who had chronic comorbidities were 
      excluded from the study. Minnesota Living with Heart Failure Questionnaire 
      (MLHFQ) tool was used to measure the outcome variable health-related quality of 
      life (HRQoL). Interviews and client medical record reviews also collected 
      socio-demographic, clinical and behavioural characteristics of participants. The 
      data were analyzed using STATA version 14, and multiple linear regression 
      analysis with P-value < 0.05 was used to measure the degree of association 
      between HRQoL and independent variables. RESULTS: A total of 372 patients 
      participated in the study. The HRQoL score for the physical, emotional, and total 
      were 22.2, 7.7, and 46.37, respectively. HRQoL was significantly associated with 
      gender, age, family size, occupation, residency, and recent admission within the 
      past six months, New York Heart Association (NYHA) functional class, department 
      of treatment, salt intake, and health perception. CONCLUSION: Generally, the 
      HRQoL for patients with heart failure was found to be low. Besides the variables 
      age and gender of participants, family size, occupation, residency, admission 
      history, salt intake, and NYHA class were significant factors for the HRQoL of 
      patients with heart failure.
CI  - (c) 2021 Molla et al.
FAU - Molla, Simegn
AU  - Molla S
AD  - Department of Health Systems, School of Public Health, College of Health 
      Sciences, Mekelle University, Mekelle, Ethiopia.
FAU - Yitayal, Mezgebu
AU  - Yitayal M
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-9206-9528
AD  - Department of Health Systems and Policy, Institute of Public Health, College of 
      Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Gondar, Gondar, Ethiopia.
FAU - Amare, Getasew
AU  - Amare G
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-2147-9754
AD  - Department of Health Systems and Policy, Institute of Public Health, College of 
      Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Gondar, Gondar, Ethiopia.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20210122
PL  - England
TA  - Risk Manag Healthc Policy
JT  - Risk management and healthcare policy
JID - 101566264
PMC - PMC7837586
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Minnesota Living with Heart Failure Questionnaire
OT  - Wolaita zone
OT  - health-related quality of life
OT  - heart failure
COIS- The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest for this work.
EDAT- 2021/02/02 06:00
MHDA- 2021/02/02 06:01
PMCR- 2021/01/22
CRDT- 2021/02/01 05:53
PHST- 2020/10/23 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2021/01/09 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2021/02/01 05:53 [entrez]
PHST- 2021/02/02 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2021/02/02 06:01 [medline]
PHST- 2021/01/22 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - 288326 [pii]
AID - 10.2147/RMHP.S288326 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - Risk Manag Healthc Policy. 2021 Jan 22;14:263-271. doi: 10.2147/RMHP.S288326. 
      eCollection 2021.