Fatigue its Related Factors and Quality of Life among Patients with Heart Failure in Tertiary Care Hospital Kochi
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Background: Heart failure (HF) is a common disease caused by inability of the heart to pump for
supporting the circulation and the functional abnormalities of the heart. The present study was
designed to assess the Fatigue, its related factors and Quality of life (QoL) among Patients with
HF in Tertiary Care Hospital, Kochi with the objectives to (1) Find out the correlation between
fatigue and (QoL) among patients with HF. (2) Identify the related factors among patients with HF.
(3) Find the correlation between fatigue and its related factors among patients with HF.
Methods: A cross sectional design with non-probability convenience sampling technique was used to
collect data from 150 HF patients from cardiology OPD at AIMS, Kochi. A standardized MFI, PSQI,
HADS, MLHFQ tool were used for the assessment of fatigue, sleep, anxiety, depression, and QoL. The
emotional aspects of QoL is significantly correlated with general fatigue (p=0.026), physical
fatigue (p=0.004) and reduced motivation (< 0.001). The correlation with depression and dimensions
of fatigue was found to be significant as the p-value was less than 0.05..
Conclusion: The study concludes that the general fatigue level increases the QoL decrease. General
and mental fatigue increases the depression also increases.
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