Effect of Health-related Lifestyle Self-management Program on Quality of Life of Patients with Ischaemic Heart Disease: A Quasi-experimental Study
LC05-LC08
Correspondence
Dr. Maryam Rajabi,
Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran.
E-mail: rajabim200@gmail.com
Introduction: Ischaemic Heart Disease (IHD) is the most common type of heart diseases and also the major cause of death or disability. This disease affects the Quality Of Life (QOL) of the patients.
Aim: To investigate the effect of a Health-related Lifestyle self-Management (HELM) program on QOL of the patients with IHD.
Materials and Methods: The present quasi-experimental study was conducted on 92 patients using convenience sampling method. Data collection was performed using the demographic and the MacNew QOL questionnaires. All the participants completed the questionnaires in two sessions (at the onset of the study and after eight weeks). In the case group, a lifestyle self-management program was executed along with the daily records; while the regular trainings were performed in the control group. Analysis of the obtained data was performed using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 16.0, Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, Chi-square test, Fisher’s test, Independent t-test, paired t-test, and descriptive tests.
Results: There was no significant difference between the two groups in terms of the demographic variables including age, gender, education, occupation, and marital status. Based on the results, before the intervention, the two groups had no significant difference in terms of the mean scores of the QOL (p>0.05); while, comparing the groups after the intervention indicated significant differences in the scores of QOL as well as in three fields emotional, physical, and social fields (p<0.05). In addition, the mean score of the QOL of the control group showed no significant difference before and after the intervention (p>0.05), but difference of the same score in the test group before and after the intervention was statistically significant (p<0.05).
Conclusion: Findings of the present study showed that the HELM program affected the QOL of the patients with heart diseases, and thus such an interventional approach would help improving the QOL of the patients.