Evidence map›Paper›PMID 31211269›Full record

ArticleArchives of medical sciences. Atherosclerotic diseases2019

Assessment of quality of life and anxiety in heart failure outpatients.

Maria Polikandrioti, Georgios Panoutsopoulos, Athanasia Tsami, Georgia Gerogianni, Sofia Saroglou, Efthalia Thomai, Ioannis Leventzonis

Abstract read
PubMed Full text at PMC Publisher
In one paragraph

Article in Archives of medical sciences. Atherosclerotic diseases, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
23citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

23 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Article
  3. Article
  4. State, Trait Anxiety and Insomnia in Hospitalized Patients With Cardiovascular Disease.Acta informatica medica : AIM : journal of the Society for Medical Informatics of Bosnia & Herzegovina : casopis Drustva za medicinsku informatiku BiH · 2025
    Article
  5. Article
  6. Article
  7. Review
  8. Article
  9. Article
  10. Article
  11. Observational
  12. Review
  13. Article
  14. Review
  15. Article
  16. Article
  17. Perceived Social Isolation in Heart Failure.The Journal of innovations in cardiac rhythm management · 2022
    Article
  18. Article
  19. Article
  20. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Maria PolikandriotiNursing Department, University of West Attica, Athens, Greece.
Georgios PanoutsopoulosDepartment of Nursing, Faculty of Human Movement and Quality of Life Sciences, University of Peloponnese, Sparta, Lakonia, Greece.
Athanasia TsamiRN, MSc Nurse, General University Laiko Hospital, Athens, Greece.
Georgia GerogianniNursing Department, University of West Attica, Athens, Greece.
Sofia SaroglouNursing Department, University of West Attica, Athens, Greece.
Efthalia ThomaiNursing Department, University of West Attica, Athens, Greece.
Ioannis LeventzonisNursing Department, University of West Attica, Athens, Greece.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

introductionHeart failure (HF) is a chronic disease associated with increased morbidity and mortality. HF prevalence is expected to expand enormously, largely due to population ageing, rising incidence of HF risk factors and increased survival after cardiovascular events. The aim of the study was to assess levels of quality of life (QOL) and anxiety in HF outpatients and the associated factors as well as to explore the impact of anxiety on QOL. MATERIAL AND

methodsOne hundred HF outpatients were enrolled in the study. Data collection was performed by completion of the Minnesota Living with Heart Failure Questionnaire (MLHFQ), the Self-rating Anxiety Scale (SAS) and a questionnaire including patients' characteristics.

resultsOf the 100 HF outpatients, 64% were men and 66% above 70 years old. Regarding QOL, at least 50% of patients scored above 68 (median) in the total score of MLHFQ and in terms of anxiety, 50% scored above 46 (median) in the SAS. These values indicate a large impact of HF on QOL and a moderate impact of HF on anxiety. Furthermore, a statistically significant correlation was observed between QOL and anxiety in HF outpatients (rho > 0.6,

conclusionsThe present findings emphasize the importance of alleviating the emotional burden of anxiety, thus improving patients' QOL.

Indexed as

anxietyheart failurequality of life

Identifiers

PMID31211269
PMCPMC6549038

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY-NC-SA
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.