Quality of life in Arab children with congenital heart disease.

Autor: Dardas LA; School of Nursing, The University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan., Pan W; Duke University School of Nursing, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America., Hamdan AI; Al Bashir Hospital, Amman, Jordan., Abu Jabeh RAH; Shmaisani Hospital, Amman, Jordan., Eid Ashakhanba A; Institute For Family Health, Clinical Psychologist, Amman, Jordan., Sami Abdelhai O; Al-Khalidi Medical Center, Amman, Jordan., Naim Abid M; Marka Specialty Hospital, Amman, Jordan., Ahmad Mohammad H; Internal Medicine Resident, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar., Al-Ammouri I; Pediatric Cardiology School of Medicine, The University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: PloS one [PLoS One] 2024 Jan 18; Vol. 19 (1), pp. e0290306. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Jan 18 (Print Publication: 2024).
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0290306
Abstrakt: Background and Purpose: Management strategies for children with congenital health diseases (CHDs) should encompass more than just the medical aspect of the disease and consider how heart diseases affect their everyday activities and, subsequently, their quality of life (QoL). Global studies witnessed a greater emphasis on studying the QoL associated with CHD. However, there is still a great lag in such data in the Arab region. The purpose of this study was to evaluate QoL in children with CHD using an Arab sample from Jordan. The specific objectives were twofold: (1) to contrast the assessments of children's QoL reported by their parents with those reported by the children themselves, and (2) to assess the factors that influence the QoL of children with CHD.
Methods: A total of 79 children aged 2-18 with a confirmed diagnosis of CHD were included in the study, along with their mothers. Of them, 38.0% were girls, 67.1% were diagnosed with non-cyanotic CHD, 58.2% had a severe CHD, 92.4% had undergone at least one operation, 81.0% had repaired defects, 13.9% underwent palliated procedures, and 24.1% were admitted to a neonatal intensive care unit after delivery. The Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory was used to assess QoL of children with CHD. Both children's and parents' reports of QoL were analyzed using paired-sample t-tests, ANOVAs, and multiple linear regression.
Results: Older children reported significantly lower QoL scores, whereas there were no differences in parents-reported QoL scores across different children age groups. There was a divergence in perceptions of QoL between parents-reported and children-reported scores with parents reporting significantly lower scores. The children-reported QoL in this study seemed to be significantly associated with their gender, age, and the presence of learning difficulties, whereas the parent-reported QoL was only associated with the presence of learning difficulties.
Conclusions: Responses from both children and parents need to be considered to understand the similarities and differences between them and to provide further insight into the optimal way to help children with CHD effectively navigate the transition into adulthood. Future research studies of outcomes for survivors of children with CHD are needed to identify high-risk survivors for worse psychosocial functioning and assess prevention measures and treatment interventions to improve their QoL.
Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
(Copyright: © 2024 Dardas et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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