Relationship between Psychological Factors and Quality of Life in Patients with Heart Disease and Those with Diabetes

Sara Miftari Sadiki
Additional contact information
Sara Miftari Sadiki: University of Tetova

European Journal of Social Sciences Articles, 2019, vol. 2

Abstract: Background: The coronary disease and diabetes are the most common diseases in Tetovo, therefore the aim of this study is the evaluation of quality of life of patients and of the control group under stress, depression and anxiety influence. In this study has been used a purposeful sampling.The research instrument used consists of socio-demographic questions and four tests: Cohen’s stress measurement questionnaire, Beck’s depression measurement questionnaire, Beck’s anxiety measurement questionnaire and the quality of life measurement questionnaire (WHOQOL). The sample of the study consists of N=300, including patients with heart coronary diseases, patients with diabetes and respondents from the control groups. The results of the study proved the hypothesis that: stress, depression, and anxiety have a negative significant impact in quality of life in the study sample (p-.001). The findings of this study reveals the fact that patients with chronic disease have a reduced quality of life under the influence of psychological factors.

Keywords: coronary heart diseases; diabetes; stress; depression; anxiety; quality of life (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://brucol.be/index.php/ejss/article/view/8057 (text/html)
https://brucol.be/files/articles/ejss_v2_i1_19/Sadiki.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eur:ejssjr:42

DOI: 10.26417/ejss-2019.v2i1-54

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in European Journal of Social Sciences Articles from Revistia Research and Publishing
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Revistia Research and Publishing (office@revistia.org).