Quality of Life of Mothers of Infants Subjected to Neonatal Cardiac Surgery: The Importance of Psychosocial Factors.

ABSTRACT: Background: The World Health Organization acknowledges quality of life (QOL) as subjectively perceived overall well-being by the individual and recognizes it as an essential construct for overall health and wellness. The purpose of this study was to examine the association of infant, environmental, and parental factors with the QOL of mothers of infants at four months post-hospital discharge from cardiac surgery. Methods: Secondary analysis of prospectively collected data from the REACH randomized clinical trial of telehealth home monitoring. The sample included mothers (n  =  148) of infants with congenital heart disease who provided data at four months post-discharge. Ten imputations were generated using fully conditional specification methods to address missing data and we

SUBMITTER: Lisanti AJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9286064 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature