Sumbal Inam, Mohsin Nasir Hunjra, Farwa W Aris, Umar Ahsan, Amara Unum, Aroba Anum, Ansar Latif.
Life Orientation, Illness Perceptions and Quality of Life in patients with Coronary Heart Disease.
Pak J Med Health Sci Jan ;12(1):195-8.

Aim: To assess the relationship between life orientation, illness perceptions and quality of life in patients with coronary heart disease. Methods: The study was conducted at Punjab Institute of Cardiology Lahore , Services Hospital Lahore and Allied Hospital Faisalabad. This study was completed in six months. The co-relational research design was employed to assess the hypothesis of the current study. Survey method was use to collect data for current study. Life orientation, illness perceptions and quality scales were used to operationalize the life orientation, illness perceptions and quality respectively. Results: The findings of the study showed that the life orientation and illness perceptions were significant predictors of quality of life in patients with coronary heart disease. Conclusion: Results from this study exhibit the prediction of life-orientation, illness perceptions with quality of life among patients with CHD. Indeed, negative illness perceptions and life orientations among patients with CHD were co-related diminished quality of life. Identifying CHD patients with a profile of negative life orientations and illness perceptions, including greater consequences, negative belief and low apparent control, high symptoms burden could help illness perceptions intervention targeting at reducing mal-adaptive illness perceptions and life-orientations to improve quality of life.

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