Quality of life of patients after a myocardial infarction

Wawryniuk Agnieszka, Kopeć Katarzyna, Łuczyk Robert, Sikora Kamil, Łuczyk Marta. Quality of life of patients after a myocardial infarction. Journal of Education, Health and Sport. 2021;11(6):178-185. eISSN 2391-8306. DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.12775/JEHS.2021.11.06.019

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Received: 02.06.2021. Revised: 11.06.2021. Accepted: 29.06.2021.

Quality of life of patients after a myocardial infarction

Agnieszka Wawryniuk¹, Katarzyna Kopeć², Robert Jan Łuczyk¹,
Kamil Sikora², Marta Łuczyk³

¹Institute of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medical Sciences and Health Sciences,
Siedlce University of Natural Sciences and Humanities

²Chair of Internal Medicine and Department of Internal Medicine in Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, Medical University of Lublin

³Department of Oncology, Department of Oncology and Environmental Health Care,

Faculty of Health Sciences, Medical University of Lublin

Introduction

A Latin adage says that "good health is better than the greatest wealth." [3] It has been known for a long time that the heart is the most important organ that works continuously throughout life to properly nourish all tissues, and thus determines the proper functioning and health of the entire human body. Meanwhile, despite the development of science, the advancement of diagnosis and treatment techniques, cardiovascular diseases, often leading to a heart attack, are the leading cause of death in most developed countries. [4]. Estimates of the National Centre For Heart Statistic say that 143 million people worldwide suffer from ischemic heart disease. [6]. A past of myocardial infarction, despite the high mortality, also affects the quality of life of patients. According to the definition of the World Health Organization (WHO), quality of life is an individual way in which an individual perceives his or her position in life in relation to the culture and value system in which he or she functions, as well as in the context of expectations, tasks and standards set by environmental determinants. [5]. The medical approach to the quality of life consists in identifying the patient's problems related to his physical, mental and social activity resulting from the disease and the treatment used, as well as describing his views on health and subjective well-being.

Aim of research

The aim of the study is to assess the quality of life of patients after myocardial infarction.

Material and methods

The research was conducted in the Department of Cardiology. The study included a group of 100 patients over 18 years old, who had suffered a myocardial infarction. The collected research material was statistically processed using the IBM SPSS Statistics (v. 25) statistical package. During the research necessary to write this work, the following tools were used: standardized questionnaire for the WHOQOL-BREF quality of life survey  and Mini - COPE – Stress Coping Inventory. In order to determine the correlation between quantitative variables, the Pearson linear correlation coefficient was used, which is used to study the linear relationship between two features.

Results

The obtained results of the analysis were considered statistically significant at p <0.05. 34% of people aged up to 65, 37% aged 66 to 75 and 29% aged over 75 participated in the study.

Key words: Quality of life; myocardial infarction