Effect of Sociodemographic Correlates on Quality of Life of Heart Failure Patients
Muhammad Zahid Iqbal
Department of Pharmacy Practice, Lahore Pharmacy College, Lahore Medical & Dental College, University of Health Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan.
Yaman W. Kassab
Department of Pharmacy Practice, College of Pharmacy, National University of Science and Technology, Muscat, Oman.
Mehr Ali Shah
Department of Pharmacy, Dr. Sulaiman Al Habib Hospital, Dubai, UAE.
Shashidharan Menon
School of Pharmacy, KPJ Healthcare University College, 71800 Nilai, Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia.
Ahmed Abdelrahman Gadelseed Salih
Inpatient Pharmacy, Pharmacy Department, Mediclinic Airport Road Hospital, Abu Dhabi, UAE.
Amra Salahuddin
Jinnah Sindh Medical University, Karachi, Pakistan.
Muhammad Umer Abdul Moiz
Jinnah Medical and Dental College, Karachi, Pakistan.
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 effect of sociodemographic correlates on quality of life (QoL) in heart failure patients.
Methods: A cross-sectional study using a newly developed and validated research tool and 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: Out of total 177 studied patients, 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 demographic variables like gender, age, marital status, educational level, monthly income, smoking, family history and weight were found to have positive correlation with patients overall QoL
Conclusion: The study results concluded a weak but positive correlation between various studied demographic variables and QoL of the heart failure patients.
Keywords: Heart failure, QoL, sociodemographic, correlates, correlation