Health‐Related Quality of Life in Brazilian Pacemaker Patients

Oliveira, Bruna Guimarães; Velásquez-Meléndez, Gustavo; Rincon, Leonor Garcia; Ciconelli, Rozana Mesquita; Sousa, Lidiane Aparecida Pereira de; Ribeiro, Antônio Luiz Pinho

doi:10.1111/j.1540-8159.2008.01159.x

Cited by 24 publications

(33 citation statements)

References 26 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…Therefore, this study also showed a direct relationship of functional class, which reflects the degree of heart failure, quality of life in patients with pacemakers, confirming reports by other authors, such as Stofmeel et al [18] Oliveira et al [8,23]; Cunha et al [9].…”

Section: Quality Of Life X Functional Classificationsupporting

confidence: 80%

“…Oliveira et al [23] studied quality of life in 139 patients with pacemakers, identified relationship between poorer quality of life related to health in patients with pacemakers with Chagas disease, female gender, unmarried status and the worst functional class. In multivariate analysis, the worst functional class stood out as an independent predictor of poor quality of life related to health in the physical component of the SF-36 and in all domains of AQUAREL.…”

Section: Quality Of Life X Functional Classificationmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation

Correlation between quality of life, functional class and age in patients with cardiac pacemaker

Borges¹,

Barros²,

Carvalho³

et al. 2013

Revista Brasileira De Cirurgia Cardiovascular

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Objective: To evaluate whether there is a correlation between quality of life and functional class in early heart pacemaker in patients, and its relationship with age.Methods: 107 patients of both sexes (49.5% female /50.5% male) were investigated, average implant time of 6.36 months (±2.99), and average age of 69.3 years (±12.6). To assess the FC, a scale suggested by Goldman was used; for QoL the AQUAREL questionnaire was used, associated with SF-36. Statistical analysis was conducted using Spearman's correlation with 5% significance.Results: Negative correlations were observed between QoL and FC: AQUAREL in the three domains, chest discomfort (r=-0.197, P=0.042), dyspnea (r=-0.508, P=0.000), arrhythmia (r=-0.271, P=0.005), and the SF-36 in the eight domains. Regarding age, there was a negative correlation with the SF-36 Functional Capacity (r=-0.338, P=0.000) and no correlation was found with AQUAREL. Positive correlation (r=0.237, P=0.014) was observed between age and FC. Conclusion

show abstract

Section: Quality Of Life X Functional Classificationsupporting

confidence: 80%

Section: Quality Of Life X Functional Classificationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Correlation between quality of life, functional class and age in patients with cardiac pacemaker

Borges¹,

Barros²,

Carvalho³

et al. 2013

Revista Brasileira De Cirurgia Cardiovascular

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Thus, higher scores represent a worse HRQoL. Another instrument, the Assessment of QUAlity of life and RELated events (AQUAREL) is a specifi c questionnaire for evaluating HRQoL in pacemaker patients (27) and was used in one study (28) .…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…One showed that the presence of ChD was not associated with SF-36 scores although the patients (n = 92, aged 65.3 ± 12.4 years) had a higher mortality rate resulting from cardiac causes (p = 0.04) (18) . Likewise, Oliveira et al (28) showed no difference in HRQoL between ChD (n = 77) and non-ChD (n = 31) pacemaker patients in the physical (p = 0.094) and mental (p = 0.51) domains of the SF-36. However, ChD pacemaker patients had worse scores in the chest discomfort (p = 0.030) and arrhythmia (p = 0.004) domains of the AQUAREL.…”

Section: Sousa Gr Et Al -Health-related Quality Of Life In Patients mentioning

confidence: 99%

Health-related quality of life in patients with Chagas disease: a review of the evidence

Sousa

Costa

Souza

et al. 2015

Rev. Soc. Bras. Med. Trop.

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Chagas disease (ChD), a neglected tropical disease caused by infection with the parasite Trypanosoma cruzi (T. cruzi), remains a serious p ublic health issue in Latin America and is an emerging disease in several non-endemic countries, where knowledge of the condition and experience with its clinical management are limited. Regionally, the disease is the major cause of disability secondary to tropical diseases in young adults. Health-related quality of life (HRQoL) impairment is common in patients with ChD, especially in those with Chagas dilated cardiomyopathy, the most severe manifestation of the disease, which frequently leads to heart failure. The aim of this review was to conduct a literature search for studies that have evaluated the determining factors of HRQoL in ChD patients. We included cross-sectional, case-control, cohort, and experimental studies, as well as clinical trials that evaluated the HRQoL in ChD patients aged 18 to 60 years and are presenting an explicit description of statistical analysis. Using a combination of keywords based on Descriptors in Health Sciences (DeCS) and Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) for searches in PubMed and the Scientifi c Electronic Library Online (SciELO), 148 studies were found. After exclusions, 12 studies were selected for analysis. Three main fi ndings were extracted from these studies: 1) cardiac involvement is associated with a worse HRQoL in ChD patients; 2) HRQoL is associated with the patients' functional capacity; and 3) simple and inexpensive therapeutic measures are effective for improving HRQoL in ChD patients. Hence, ChD patients' functional capacity, the effectiveness of non-surgical conservative treatment, and cardiac involvement are important determining factors for the HRQoL in ChD patients.

show abstract

“…10 One study reported that 72% of pacemaker recipients in a Brazilian cohort displayed seropositivity for T cruzi. 11 Seropositivity as high as 25% has been reported in Bolivian children 5 to 13 years of age. 12 Understanding the true prevalence of untreated symptomatic bradycardia can be difficult because of a paucity of clinical data.…”

Section: Scope Of the Epidemicmentioning

confidence: 99%