An international comparison of factors affecting quality of life among patients with congestive heart failure: A cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To explore associations among twenty formal and informal, societal and individual-level factors and quality of life (QOL) among people living with congestive heart failure (CHF) in two settings with different healthcare and social care systems and sociocultural contexts.

Setting and participants

We recruited 367 adult patients with CHF from a single heart failure clinic within two countries with different national social to healthcare spending ratios: Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States (US), and Nijmegen, Netherlands (NL).

Design

Cross-sectional survey study. We adapted the Social Quality Model (SQM) to organize twenty diverse factors into four categories: Living Conditions (formal-societal: e.g., housing, education), Social Embeddedness (informal-societa

SUBMITTER: Roy B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7141662 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature