STUDY ON THE INFLUENCE OF SOME PERSONAL AND SOCIAL FACTORS ON LIFE QUALITY IN PATIENTS WITH MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION AFTER CORONARY INTERVENTION

Nguyen Thi Hanh1, Chu Dung Si1
1 Bach Mai Hospital

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Objective: To study the influence of a number of individual - social factors on the life quality of patients after myocardial infarction who received coronary intervention at the Vietnam Heart Institute. Subjects and methods: A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted on 200 patients with heart attacks who got coronary stents at the Vietnam Heart Institute, Bachmai Hospital were studied from september 2015 to June 2016. Make use of the MacNew questionaire. Results: The life quality group's overall life quality score was 5.26, including 5.68 for mental life quality, 5.17 for physical life quality, and 5.68 for activity life quality. The social score was 4.92. The overall life quality score was inversely linked with age (r = -0.25, p < 0.05). Education level is associated to life quality; those with a university degree have a higher quality of life than those without (OR = 2.537, 95% CI: 1.211-5.316). Marital status has an effect on life quality: an incomplete family has a lower life quality score (OR = 0.35 (0.126 - 1.007), but a full family has a higher life quality score (based on metal, physical, ans social factors).

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