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.
