Selected psycho-social context and quality of life in sample of patients with implanted cardio-stimulator
Abstract
Clinical practice allows employing as single-chamber stimulation system, as dual-chamber cardio-stimulating system for treatment clinical significant brady-arrhytmia in great deal of patients. Data concerning the quality of life are known from samples of patients with implanted cardio-stimulator in Western Europe but up to now the data concerning the quality of life in patients in the Czech Republic are not known, especially in patients with permanent fibrillation of chambers.
Overall 150 patients with implanted cardio-stimulator who fulfilled the preliminary and exclusion criteria were followed. Participants were examined before the implantation of cardio-stimulating system and 6 to 10 weeks after the implantation.
The examination was carried out in the form of questionnaire in these modalities: quality of life, social support, locus of control, and symptoms of depression. The results imply that the iniplantation of cardio-stimulating systems in patients over 74 years leads only to partial improvement of quality of life in increasing the level of social support and reinforcing the inner localization of control in patients with permanent fibrillation of chambers after the implantation of cardio-stimulating systems.
In other diagnoses, only in the social support modality the statistically significant improvement was found