Background: The coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) is performed to completely or partially relieve the symptoms of coronary heart disease (CHD). One of the most important goals of this operation is the improvement of quality of life (QoL). The data obtained on healthrelated quality of life (HRQoL) represents the functional limitations and the alleviation of symptoms amon...

Background: Acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) is a fatal viral disease which can affect the patient’s immune system and render the patient susceptible to opportunistic infections. In recent years, the number of women with HIV acquired through sexual transmission has increased. Therefore, due to the importance of quality of life (QOL) among these women and the impact of violence a...

objective: quality of life (qol) is an intellectual concept consisting of positive and negative aspects of an individual’s life and indeed it demonstrates the method by which a person perceives the health condition as well as the other aspects of his/her life and reacts to them. currently, assessment of qol is more considered because of the increased prevalence of chronic diseases. so, the curr...

quality of life (qol) is a vast multidimensional concept related to health and health care. as qol decreases after health diseases, the aim of most medical health care systems and cardiac rehabilitation centers are to enhance qol of heart disease patients. the aim of this study was to investigate the effects of continuous and interval exercise training on quality of life of heart patients after...

background & aims: psychological interventions may improve the quality of life in asthmatic patients through affecting the bio-psycho-social dimensions. this study is aimed to assess the efficacy of cognitive behavioral stress management (cbsm) group education on improvement of quality of life in asthmatic patients. method& materials: this was an experimental study using randomized pre-, post- ...

the purpose of this study was to shed light on the identification of themes and sub-themes of the quality of life (qol) in iranian veterans with spinal cord injury (sci). studies have reported decreased qol in sci patients which encompass all aspects of their life. little is known about qol in sci veterans from iran. the aim of this qualitative study was to identify related aspects of such pati...

BACKGROUND To examine associations between global quality of life (QOL) and major life events. MATERIAL/METHODS This was a retrospective study using the self-administrated expanded SEQOL questionnaire with questions on life events and connected emotions. Seven hundred forty-six people, 55-66 years old, from a representative sample of the Danish population participated. Global QOL was measured...

ophthalmologists visit patients with “20/20” vision post-op who are not satisfied and at times encounter cases with significantly lower visual acuity who are totally satisfied quality of life is at the heart of this.   quality of life (qol) approach—in the healthcare context—advocates a focus on the softer psychosocial aspects of health care vis-à-vis the harder biological aspects and the adopt...

conclusions: family-centered empowerment model, easily adapted to methamphetamine users and their families, leads to improved social supports and qol. results: mean scores of qol and social support dimensions changed significantly in two intervention groups (p < 0.0001), but didn’t change in the control group (p > 0.05). also, there was a positive significant relation (p < 0.05) between total s...