RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN AGE AND GENDER WITH
QUALITY OF
LIFE IN PATIENTS WITH CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE
Chuchum Sumiarty
Alinda
Allecia Amandea Yudha
Novita Sari
Allif Ridho
Keywords: Quality of life, congestive heart failure patients, gender, age
Abstact
Quality of life often decreases in patients with congestive heart failure. Based on the
World Health
Organization report, there are 17.5 million people (31%) of the 58 million deaths in the
world caused by heart
disease. Age and gender determine differences in coping strategies in dealing with decreased
function in
patients with congestive heart failure. This study aims to determine the relationship
between age and gender
with quality of life in patients with congestive heart failure at Cibinong Hospital. This
type of research uses
descriptive analytic with cross sectional research design. The population in this study were
40 respondents.
The way of taking samples by means of total sampling is as many as 40 respondents. Quality
of life is measured
by the WHOQOL (World Health Organization's Quality of Life) questionnaire. Data collection
was obtained
through distributing questionnaires. The data analysis used is Univariate and Bivariate. Age
of patients with
heart failure is divided into 46-55 years, 56-65 years and >65 years. 22 (78.5%) of the 28
male respondents
had a poor quality of life, and 8 (66.6%) of the 12 female respondents had a poor quality of
life. The statistical
test results for age and quality of life using the Kendall's Tau test obtained ρ value =
0.000 meaning that ρ
value ≤ 0.05 then Ha is accepted. 05 then Ha is rejected. It was concluded that there is a
relationship between
age and quality of life in Cibinong Hospital. But there is no relationship between gender
and quality of life in
Cibinong Hospital.
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