Comparing patients’ quality of life before and after Coronary Artery Bypass Graft surgery (CABG)

Abolfazl  Rahimi; Hamidreza  Taghipoor; Abbas  Ebadi; Mohammad  Pourebrahimi

Comparing patients’ quality of life before and after Coronary Artery Bypass Graft surgery (CABG)

Abolfazl Rahimi ¹ , Hamidreza Taghipoor ¹ , Abbas Ebadi ¹ and Mohammad Pourebrahimi ^{1
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Journal of Critical Care Nursing : April 03, 2016, 7 (3); e6949
Published Online: September 20, 2014
Article Type: Research Article
Received: May 09, 2016
Accepted: September 08, 2014

To Cite: Rahimi A , Taghipoor H , Ebadi A , Pourebrahimi M . Comparing patients’ quality of life before and after Coronary Artery Bypass Graft surgery (CABG), Crit Care Nurs J. 2016 ;7(3):e6949.

Abstract

Aims: Cardiovascular diseases are one of the main causes of mortality in the world. Coronary Heart Disease (CHD) is one of the cardiovascular diseases that influence patients’ quality of life. Evaluating quality of life of these patients is one of the components of treatment; this study is done with the aim of comparing patients’ quality of life before and after CABG.
Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted on 90 patient’s candidate for CABG in Baqiyatallah and Jamaran Heart hospitals of Tehran in 2013. Sampling was done among the patients who had the inclusion criteria through convenient sampling method. Collecting data was done before and two months after surgery; MacNew specific Questionnaire of heart patients’ quality of life was used for this purpose. Paired t-test and SPSS17 software were used for statistical analysis.
Results: The mean score for quality of life before and two months after surgery was respectively 225.4 (24.88) and 168.6 (34.7). Also quality of life had significant decrease before surgery in compare with after surgery regarding emotional, physical and social dimensions (p<0.001).
Conclusions: Quality of life will be decreased in a short period of time due to surgical complications. Conducting longitudinal studies is recommended for more accurate assessment of this concept.

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