Background: Hypertensive is the primary contributing factor to many of the cardiovascular events and other conditions directly and indirectly. Thus understanding quality of life of hypertensive patients helps in making appropriate interventions and steps to improve critical conditions. Aim: To determine the QOL of patients with the help of MINICHAL questionnaire, SF-36 and HADS questionnaire. Methods: The study was conducted for a period of 4 months in a study population of 276 patients of both genders in a tertiary care hospital. Complete details on their socio demo-graphic, clinical factors, disease conditions were reported and noted down. Patients were requested to complete the questionnaires of QOL and some were interviewed with the details of which questionnaires were completed. Results & discussion: Out of the 276 hypertensive patients, 171 (62.0%) were male and 105 (38.0%) were female. Mean and percentage of socio-demographic, clinical factors were reported. Higher HRQOL values under MINICHAL scale were obtained for patients with chest pain (14.5), dyspnea (13.9) and renal damage (12.5) with significant levels and higher score on their mental domains. Anxiety scores were higher for women when compared to men [3.82(2.88)]. Correlation on the MINICHAL scale domains showed a positive correlation on the QOL of patients with the domains. Men had significantly poor QOL when compared to women. Conclusion: Socio-demographic details, clinical factors, details on disease conditions could be important factors in obtaining the QOL of patients with the help of questionnaires of genetic and specific purposes.
Cardiovascular diseases, Depression, Elderly patients, Hypertension, Quality of life
