Influence of anxiety on health-related quality of life among patients with heart diseases

Abstract

Method : The investigation is conducted using a descriptive-analytic approach. The research will run from December 15th, 2021 through May15th, 2022 at Al-Samawah Teaching Hospital's Center Coronary Care Unit. Results: Result showed that our samples are suffering from moderate to severe anxiety symptoms (M±SD= 13.73±3.29), and have Fair quality of life (M±SD= 76.31±12.442) as seen among 86% of them. Most of patients with heart diseases have fair levels quality of life moderate (physical domain, psychological domain, social domain, environmental domain) which reflect fair level among all items of this domain. Finally Anxiety of patients have significant influence on quality of life among patients with heart disease indicated by high significant with overall quality of life score at p-value= .001; the significant difference is seen among all domains of quality of life except physical domain that show non-significant. Conclusions: The majority of heart disease patients suffer from fair levels quality of life , and severe anxiety, and fair levels quality of life moderate .Anxiety has significant influence on quality of life among patients with heart disease indicated by high significant between anxiety and quality of life