title: [The New European Questionnaire for Assessment of Quality of Life of Patients With Ischemic Heart Disease: HeartQoL].
abstract: Quality of life (QL) of patients with ischemic heart disease (IHD) is a combination symptoms of the disease, physical state, emotional status, and social-laboring functioning. Until recently there were no universal questionnaire allowing to perform comparative analysis of QL of patients with effort angina (EF), survivors of myocardial infarction (MI) and chronic heart failure (CHF). Therefore, European Association of Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation conducted a study with the aim of developing universal questionnaire for assessment of QL in patients with IHD - HeartQol. The study enrolled 6384 patients with angina, MI, or CHF across 22 countries (315 in Russia). Patients completed a battery of questionnaires and Mokken scaling analysis was used to identify most important guestions for assessment of QL questions to be included into the HeartQoL questionnaire.
authors.affiliation: National Research Center for Preventive Medicine, Moscow, Russia.|City Polyclinic 67, Moscow, Russia.
authors.forename: N V
authors.initials: NV
authors.lastname: Pogosova
authors.affiliation: National Research Center for Preventive Medicine, Moscow, Russia.|City Polyclinic 67, Moscow, Russia.
authors.forename: I H
authors.initials: IH
authors.lastname: Boycharov
authors.affiliation: National Research Center for Preventive Medicine, Moscow, Russia.|City Polyclinic 67, Moscow, Russia.
authors.forename: O Yu
authors.initials: OY
authors.lastname: Sokolova
authors.affiliation: National Research Center for Preventive Medicine, Moscow, Russia.|City Polyclinic 67, Moscow, Russia.
authors.forename: V A
authors.initials: VA
authors.lastname: Vygodin
mesh_terms: D003324:Coronary Artery Disease / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D017202:Myocardial Ischemia / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy; D011788:Quality of Life; D012917:Social Adjustment; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
keywords: angina pectoris; chronic heart failure; ischemic heart disease; myocardial infarction; quality of life