Impact of Clinical Characteristics on Quality of Life of Heart Failure Patients
Yaman W. Kassab
Department of Pharmacy Practice, College of Pharmacy, National University of Science and Technology, Muscat, Oman.
Muhammad Zahid Iqbal
Department of Pharmacy Practice, Lahore Pharmacy College, Lahore Medical & Dental College, University of Health Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan.
Abdul Haseeb
Department of Clinical Pharmacy, College of Pharmacy, Umm Al-Qura University, Al-Abdia Campus, Taif Road, P.O.Box 13574, Makkah, 21955, Saudi Arabia.
Muhammad Umer Abdul Moiz
Jinnah Medical and Dental College, Karachi, Pakistan.
Amra Salahuddin
Jinnah Sindh Medical University, Karachi, Pakistan.
Abdullah Ehsan
Jinnah Medical and Dental College, Karachi, Pakistan.
Haroon Khalid Syed
Department of Pharmaceutics, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Government College University, Faisalabad, 38000 Faisalabad, Pakistan.
Shashidharan Menon
School of Pharmacy, KPJ Healthcare University College, 71800 Nilai, Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia.
Krupavaram Bethala
School of Pharmacy, KPJ Healthcare University College, 71800 Nilai, Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia.
Ganesh Sritheran Paneerselvam
School of Pharmacy, Taylor's University, 47500, Subang Jaya, Malaysia.
Muhammad Shahid Iqbal *
Department of Clinical Pharmacy, College of Pharmacy, Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz University, Al-kharj, 11942, Saudi Arabia.
*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Abstract
Objective: This study aimed to determine impact of clinical characteristics on quality of life (QoL) in heart failure patients.
Methods: A cross-sectional study using a newly developed and validated research tool and Minnesota Living with Heart Failure (MLHF) research tool, was conducted in heart failure patients. Data was collected by convenience sampling method. Descriptive, comparative, and inferential statistics were used by Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) ver. 24 to determine the sociodemographic correlates of QoL in heart failure patients.
Results: The majority of the studied heart failure patients were male 103 (58.2%) and the females were 74 (41.8%). The most of the studied heart failure patients were from > 60 years of age group 73 (41.2%). In Spearman’s correlation analysis, statistically non-significant (p >0.05), weak and positive associations were observed. The studied clinical variables like disease duration, total no. of comorbidities, types of comorbidities i.e., HPT, dyslipidemia, renal problems, Diabetes mellitus (DM) and others, hospital admissions, no. of current medications were found to have positive correlation with patients overall QoL.
Conclusion: The study results concluded a weak but positive correlation between various studied clinical characteristics and QoL of the heart failure patients.
Keywords: Heart failure, QoL, sociodemographic, correlates, diabetes mellitus, MLHF, pharmacotherapy