TY - JOUR
T1 - Comparison of Health-Related Quality of Life Between American and Taiwanese Heart Failure Patients
AU - Huang, Tsuey Yuan
AU - Moser, Debra K.
AU - Hwang, Shiow li
AU - Lennie, Terry A.
AU - Chung, Misook
AU - Heo, Seongkum
PY - 2010/7
Y1 - 2010/7
N2 - Few investigators have compared health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in heart failure (HF) patients from different countries. The purposes of this study were to compare HRQOL between American (n = 87) and Taiwanese (n = 88) HF patients and to determine factors associated with HRQOL in both groups. In this cross-sectional survey, HRQOL was measured using the Minnesota Living with Heart Failure Questionnaire. American patients rated their HRQOL worse than Taiwanese patients did. Sociodemographics, disease severity, and symptom severity were associated with HRQOL, accounting for 42.4% of the variance in HRQOL in Americans and 57.3% in Taiwanese. Symptom severity was the most important predictor of HRQOL in both groups. Interventions targeting symptom severity could improve HF patients’ HRQOL.
AB - Few investigators have compared health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in heart failure (HF) patients from different countries. The purposes of this study were to compare HRQOL between American (n = 87) and Taiwanese (n = 88) HF patients and to determine factors associated with HRQOL in both groups. In this cross-sectional survey, HRQOL was measured using the Minnesota Living with Heart Failure Questionnaire. American patients rated their HRQOL worse than Taiwanese patients did. Sociodemographics, disease severity, and symptom severity were associated with HRQOL, accounting for 42.4% of the variance in HRQOL in Americans and 57.3% in Taiwanese. Symptom severity was the most important predictor of HRQOL in both groups. Interventions targeting symptom severity could improve HF patients’ HRQOL.
KW - health-related quality of life
KW - heart failure
KW - symptom severity
KW - transculture
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/77953298254
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/77953298254#tab=citedBy
U2 - 10.1177/1043659609358779
DO - 10.1177/1043659609358779
M3 - Article
C2 - 20371738
AN - SCOPUS:77953298254
SN - 1043-6596
VL - 21
SP - 212
EP - 219
JO - Journal of Transcultural Nursing
JF - Journal of Transcultural Nursing
IS - 3
ER -