Response of health-related quality of life following pediatric/congenital cardiac catheterization procedures.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Health related quality of life (HRQOL) is a patient-reported metric (PRM) that provides a holistic measure of health that is not addressed in traditional outcome measures. The acute responsiveness of HRQOL after pediatric/congenital cardiac catheterization procedures has not, to our knowledge, been studied.

Methods

A single-center prospective cohort study was performed, longitudinally evaluating HRQOL and other PRM in school-age children and adolescents (ages 8-18) undergoing diagnostic and interventional cardiac catheterization procedures prior to their scheduled procedure, and then 1 day, ∼1 month, and ∼3 months after the procedure. Differences between HRQOL at baseline and at 1- and 3-month follow-up were evaluated using paired Student's t-tests.

Results

SUBMITTER: O'Byrne ML 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11981091 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature