| Autor: |
Saad Khoshhal, Khaled Al-Harbi, Ibrahim Al-Mozainy, Saeed Al-Ghamdi, Adnan Aselan, Mohammad Allugmani, Sherif Salem, Dina El-Agamy, Hany Abo-Haded |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Rok vydání: |
2019 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, Vol 17, Iss 1, Pp 1-8 (2019) |
| Druh dokumentu: |
article |
| ISSN: |
1477-7525 |
| DOI: |
10.1186/s12955-019-1249-z |
| Popis: |
Abstract Background and aims Health-related quality of life (HRQOL) has garnered increasing interest especially for health care providers and researchers. The study aims to evaluate the HRQOL in parents of congenital heart disease (CHD) children, and to clarify the effect of the disease severity on the outcome of the HRQOL perception. Also, to analyze the internal consistency of the Arabic version of the World Health Organization (WHO) QOL-BREEF tool in order to determine whether the tool had good validity for the target population. Methods A cross-sectional study. The HRQOL perception was evaluated using WHOQOL-BREF questionnaire, and the internal consistency of the tool was tested using Cronbach’s alpha (α-C), Results The study sample consisted of 200 individuals, 120 parents of CHD children, compared to 80 parents of children with minor illnesses (mean age of participating parents = 35.1 ± 9.8 years). While evaluating the HRQOL, the group of parents of children with minor illnesses had higher scores than the total group of parents of CHD children in all domains, indicating a better HRQOL. Class-IV subgroup of parents of CHD children showed the most significant lower total score of domains between all classes (44.47 ± 12, p |
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