Quality of life of patients with implanted cardiac devices : a transversal study

• Autor(a) principal: Braun, Solange Maria
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Outros Autores: Krüger, Juliana, Souza, Emiliane Nogueira de, Silva, Eneida Rejane Rabelo da
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFRGS
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10183/104822
• topic: Qualidade de vida; Desfibriladores implantáveis; Quality of life; Implantable defibrillators; Artificial cardiac pacing; Nursing

Objective: Evaluate the quality of life (QL) of patients with implanted cardiac devices and describe the recognition of electromagnetic sources, and symptoms, in the event of failure of the device. Method: This is a transversal study that used the SF-36 questionnaire and an instrument developed to observe other variables. Results: The research included 56 patients, 58±13 years of age, predominantly male. In relation to QL, scores were: functional capacity = 58±26; pain = 65±32; vitality = 58±26; social aspects = 72±31; mental health = 69±26; physical aspects = 12.5(0-50); emotional aspects = 33(0-100); general health status = 49±25. The majority of the patients (91%) know that the device could suffer from interference. Conclusion: The sample of this study showed low QL scores in physical and emotional aspects, and in general health status. Besides that, patients were aware that the devices could suffer from magnetic interference, but they could not name the main sources of that interference.