background: heart failure is a severe chronic disease and has a negative impact on the health-related quality of life (hrql). in addition to preventing disease progress, one of the important goals in heart failure treatment is to improve the patient’s quality of life. this study is aimed to compare three generic to specific quality of life instruments that are used in cardiac rehabilitation set...

The Minnesota Living With Heart Failure Questionnaire (MLWHFQ) was used to evaluate the quality of life of patients with heart failure, both before and 6 months after an educational intervention. The study included 99 patients (70 male) with a mean age of 78 years. Significant correlations were found between the MLWHFQ score and the SF-36 score (r=0.41, P=.01), the Barthel Index score (r=-0.23,...

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES The Minnesota Living with Heart Failure Questionnaire (MLHFQ) is the most commonly used instrument for evaluating quality of life in patients with heart failure. It comprises 21 items and two dimensions: the physical and the emotional. The aim of this study was to assess the psychometric properties of the Spanish version of the MLHFQ. METHODS The MLHFQ and the 36-i...

The purpose of this study was to assess the impact of comorbidities on health-related quality of life (HRQL) in patients hospitalized with acute myocardial infarction in Cardiology Department of Emergency Hospital of Semey, Kazakhstan after a 12-month follow-up period. HRQL was assessed using the Minnesota living with heart failure questionnaire (MLHFQ). 93.7% of study patients had concomitant ...

BACKGROUND The Minnesota Living with Heart Failure Questionnaire (MLHFQ) is one of the most widely used health-related quality of life questionnaires for patients with heart failure (HF). It provides scores for two dimensions, physical and emotional, and a total score. However, there are some concerns about its factor structure and alternatives have been proposed, some including a third factor ...

INTRODUCTION The Minnesota Living with Heart Failure Questionnaire (MLHFQ) is an important measurement instrument for assessing the health-related quality of life (HRQOL) among heart failure patients. The purpose of this study was to translate and validate the MLHFQ in the Greek language. METHODS Three hundred forty-four consecutive adult patients from three General Hospitals, two in Athens a...

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES The Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire (KCCQ) is specifically designed to evaluate quality of life in patients with chronic heart failure (CHF). The purpose of this study was to assess the reliability, validity, and responsiveness to change of the Spanish version of the KCCQ. METHODS The multicenter study involved 315 patients with CHF. Patients were evaluate...

BACKGROUND Clinician-assigned New York Heart Association (NYHA) class is an established predictor of outcomes in heart failure. This study aims to test whether patients' self-assessment of functional status by NYHA class predicts hospital admissions, quality of life, and mortality. METHODS AND RESULTS This was an observational study within a randomized controlled trial. A total of 293 adult p...

BACKGROUND The Minnesota Living with Heart Failure Questionnaire (MLHFQ) is an important measurement instrument for assessing the quality of life of heart failure patients. Despite being largely used within our context, the questionnaire had not yet been translated and validated into the Portuguese language. OBJECTIVE Of this study was to translate and validate the Portuguese version of the M...

This study identified factors affecting health related quality of life (HRQOL) in 300 hospitalized patients with heart failure (HF). Data were collected by the completion of a questionnaire which included patients' characteristics and the Minnesota Living with Heart Failure Questionnaire (MLHFQ). Analysis of data showed that the median of the total score of MLHFQ was 46 and the median of the ph...