The Relationship between Mental Health and Life Quality among the Cardio-Vascular Patients
Year: 2015
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: Cardio-vascular diseases are considered as the most important and prevalent threatening factors of human health. In spite of the reduction in the death range due to cardio-vascular diseases during the last decade, these disorders are the major cause of deaths or inability among the individuals. Cardio-vascular patients face many different physical, mental & social problems which may cause disorder in the procedure of their life quality. With regard to the life quality in chronic diseases and the function of training in improving it, the present research has been conducted with the aim of determining the relationship between the mental health condition and life quality among the cardio-vascular patients. Hence, the present study employed a correlation method. In this research, a number of 100 patients, referring to the health & treatment centers in the town of Lordegan, Iran were selected via convenience sampling. The data were collected using the questionnaire of general health & life quality, including a number of 36 questions (short form) and were analyzed using Spearman correlation coefficient, T-test & variance analysis. The findings showed that, many of the domains of the life quality were significantly correlated with mental health. Areas of physical function existed in life quality showed a significant correlation with the three domains of anxiety, disorder in social performance & depression. The mental health area of life quality only showed a significant correlation with quasi-somatic signs area of mental health (P<0.02). Finally, the social performance domain of life quality was significantly correlated with the domain of disorder in social performance in mental health (P<0.05). Moreover, mental health domains such as anxiety with p=.006 showed to have more significant correlation among women as compared to men, and quasi-somatic symptoms with P=0.025 showed to have more significant relationship among woman as compared to men. From among the domains of life quality, physical performance with p=0.03 was more significant among men than women and somatic pain with P=0.001 was more significant among women than men. Concerning the research findings, life quality domains were correlated with mental health areas among cardio-vascular patients, and heart problems have influenced the patients' different life aspects.
Language: English
Subfield: Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2200749661