Quality of Life in Patients with Recurrent Vasovagal or Unexplained Syncope: Influence of Sex, Syncope Type and Illness Representations

Abstract

Health-related quality of life (QoL) is reduced in patients with recurrent vasovagal (VVS) or unexplained (US) syncope. Little is known regarding these patients' QoL as pertains to their capacity to attain their life goals. Factors influencing QoL, such as sex, syncope type and illness representations have not been studied. Our objective is to examine the relationship between illness representations and QoL, as well as possible sex and syncope type differences. One hundred and Applied Research Quality Life (

Evaluating the Impact of Orthostatic Syncope and Presyncope on Quality of Life: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

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“… To avoid redundancy in our reporting, data from three longitudinal studies ( 26 , 28 , 39 ) have been omitted from this table; their results can be found in Table 3 . We note that these three studies report follow-up data from three prior studies that are described in this table ( 21 , 38 , 56 ). Abbreviations: head-upright tilt test (HUT) .…”

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Applied Research in Quality of Life: A Computational Literature Review

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“…Однією з причин цього є те, що уявлення про хворобу та її наслідки опосередковують вплив кількості синкопальних епізодів на показники якості життя, пов'язаної зі здоров'ям. Саме тому зміна розуміння, що таке синкопе та його впливу на подальше життя пацієнта, може бути ефективним способом покращення якості життя [9].…”