BACKGROUND The goal of cardiac rehabilitation programs is not only to prolong life but also to improve physical functioning, symptoms, well-being, and health-related quality of life (HRQL). The aim of this study was to document the long-term effect of a 1-month inpatient cardiac rehabilitation intervention on HRQL in Austria. METHODS Patients (N = 487, 64.7% male, age 60.9 +/- 12.5 SD years) ...

The aim of this study is to validate the Danish, Norwegian and Swedish versions of the self-administered MacNew Heart Disease Health-related Quality of Life questionnaire in patients with ischemic heart disease. The MacNew questionnaire, the Short Form SF-36, and the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale were completed at baseline by 976 patients (Denmark n = 353, Norway n = 328, Sweden n = 295...

BACKGROUND The MacNew questionnaire is a neuro-behavioral tool which is easy and immediately usable. This self-reported questionnaire filled out by the patient allows the physician to achieve helpful information concerning the ways for optimizing the therapy and patient's lifestyles. In this retrospective study, our aim was to assess whether relatively high scores found using the MacNew questio...

BACKGROUND The measurement of health, the effects of disease, and the impact of health care include not only an indication of changes in disease frequency and severity but also an estimate of patients' perception of health status before and after treatment. One of the more important developments in health care in the past decade may be the recognition that the patient's perspective is as legiti...

Results: 775 patients completed the questionnaires at study entry, 599 (77%) of whom also provided data after 12 months. The internal consistency of the MacNew sub-scales was high (alpha coefficients: 0.88-0.94). There were moderate to high correlations between sub-scales of the MacNew and similar domains of the SF-36 (0.66-0.80). The MacNew scales discriminated between men and women, patients ...

BACKGROUND Assessment of health-related quality of life, increasingly being used as an outcome measure in cardiovascular disease research studies and clinical practice, requires questionnaires with sound psychometric properties. The aim of this study was to evaluate the psychometric properties of the Flemish version of the MacNew Heart Disease Health-related Quality of Life questionnaire in Fle...

BACKGROUND Patient self reported measures for Health Related Quality of Life (HRQOL) and mental distress are frequently used to evaluate outcome of therapeutic strategies in cardiac patients.Our study aims to describe changes in HRQOL and mental distress after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) focusing on temporal pattern of change and interdependences between both outcome measures. ME...

BACKGROUND A previous review suggested that the MacNew Quality of Life Questionnaire was the most appropriate disease-specific measure of health-related quality of life among people with ischaemic heart disease. However, there is ambiguity about the allocation of items to the three factors underlying the MacNew and the factor structure has not been confirmed previously among the people in the U...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the construct validity of the Turkish version of the EQ-5D in patients with acute coronary syndrome. METHODS The study was conducted as a cross-sectional study at the Trakya University Hospital between February and May 2008. All patients completed the Turkish version of the EQ-5D and MacNew heart-related quality of life scale. Construct validity of the EQ-5D was assessed...

OBJECTIVE The MacNew Health related Quality of Life Questionnaire is a widely used instrument for the assessment of health related quality of life in cardiac patients. The study addresses for the first time the dimensional structure of the MacNew with Mokken Scale Analysis (MSA). METHODS Separate exploratory MSA of the MacNew was conducted in a large Spanish (n=1012) and a medium sized Austri...