RESEARCH ARTICLE


Patient and Spouse Perceived Quality of Life Five Years After Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery



G.A. Lee*, 1
Preventative Cardiology, Baker IDI Heart & Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Australia


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* Address correspondence to this author at the Baker IDI Heart & Diabetes Institute, Commercial Road, Prahran 3004, Melbourne, Australia; E-mail: geraldine.lee@bakeridi.edu.au


Abstract

Health-related quality of life (HRQoL) was examined in patients’ and their respective spouses’ perspectives five years after cardiac bypass surgery. Participants completed the Short-Form 36 (SF-36) which consists of eight domains and two component summary scores measuring physical and mental HRQoL (PCS and MCS respectively). Paired t tests were used to compare couples responses (n=56 pairs) with spouses recording higher (i.e. better scores) in the physical-related domains although differences were not significant. Statistically significant results were found between patients and spouses in emotional role, mental health, social functioning, energy/vitality and general health perceptions (p< 0.001). The PCS were very similar for both the patient and spouses sample (45.9 v. 45.8 respectively, p = .829) and the MCS was significantly higher in the patients compared to the spouses (54.8 v. 47.7, p < .001). The results demonstrated that spouses could accurately report the physical aspects of HRQoL but not the mental health of their partner.