Title
Health-related quality of life in adult CHD surgical patients in a low middle-income country: A mixed-methods study
Document Type
Article
Department
Paediatrics and Child Health; School of Nursing and Midwifery, Pakistan
Abstract
Background and objectives: This mixed-methods study aimed to assess health-related quality of life in young adults with CHD following surgery in a low middle-income country, Pakistan. Despite the knowledge that geographic, cultural and socio-economic factors may shape the way health and illness is experienced and managed and consequently determine a person's health-related quality of life, few health-related quality of life studies are conducted in low middle-income countries. This deficit is pronounced in CHD, so there is little guidance for patient care.
Methods: The study utilised concurrent, mixed methods. Adults with CHD (n = 59) completed health-related quality of life surveys (PedsQLTM 4.0 Generic Core Scale, PedsQLTM Cognitive Functioning Scale and PedsQLTM 3.0 Cardiac Module). Semi-structured interview data were collected from a nested sub-sample of 17 participants and analysed using qualitative content analysis, guided by the revised Wilson-Cleary model of health-related quality of life.
Results: The lowest health-related quality of life domain was emotional with the mean score (71.61 ± 20.6), followed by physical (78.81 ± 21.18) and heart problem (79.41 ± 18.05). There was no statistical difference in general or cardiac-specific health-related quality of life between mild, moderate or complex CHD. Qualitative findings suggested low health-related quality of life arose from a reduced capacity to contribute to family life including family income and gender. A sense of reduced marriageability and fear of dependency were important socio-cultural considerations.
Conclusions: CHD surgical patients in this low-income country experience poor health-related quality of life, and contributing factors differ to those reported for high-income countries. Socio-cultural understandings should underpin assessment, management and care-partnering with young adults with CHD following surgical correction.
Publication ( Name of Journal)
Cardiology in the Young
Recommended Citation
Ladak, L.,
Gallagher, R.,
Hasan, B.,
Awais, K.,
Abdullah, A.,
Gullick, J.
(2020). Health-related quality of life in adult CHD surgical patients in a low middle-income country: A mixed-methods study. Cardiology in the Young, 1-12.
Available at:
https://ecommons.aku.edu/pakistan_fhs_mc_women_childhealth_paediatr/916
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