Resultados: 4

Health-related quality of life of patients with permanent cardiac pacing

ABSTRACT Objective: to assess the health-related quality of life of patients with a permanent cardiac pacemaker. Method: descriptive, observational, cross-sectional study conducted in the arrhythmia outpatient unit of a university hospital located in the interior of São Paulo, Brazil. The consecutive ...

Correlation between quality of life and burden of family caregivers of infants with cleft lip and palate

Rev. Esc. Enferm. USP; 53 (), 2019
ABSTRACT Objective: To evaluate the correlation between measures of quality of life and burden in family caregivers of infants with cleft lip and palate and to analyze possible associations between quality of life and sociodemographic variables. Method: Exploratory, cross-sectional study conducted in h...

Health-related quality of life and expectations of spinal stenosis patients towards the surgical treatment

Texto & contexto enferm; 25 (3), 2016
ABSTRACT The objective of this cross-sectional analytical study was to compare health-related quality of life, presence of anxiety and depression symptoms, and functional limitation according to the location of the spinal stenosis; and to describe patients' expectations toward the surgical treatment. Thi...

Health-related quality of life determinants in outpatients with heart failure

This descriptive and exploratory study analyzed variables associated with health-related quality of life among 130 outpatients. Health-related quality of life was measured through the Minnesota Living with Heart Failure Questionnaire. Significant associations were found between patients’ health-related ...