Livskvalitet och rehabilitering för män och kvinnor med diagnostiserad hjärtsjukdom
en litteraturstudie
Myocardial infarctionQuality of lifeMaleFemaleDifferencesHjärtinfarktLivskvalitetManKvinna och skillnader
The aim of the study was to describe how women and men with diagnosed heart disease experience their health-related quality of life and what differences there is between genders in their quality of life and also describe problems after receiving the diagnosis. The study also aimed to describe rehabilitation of patients with heart disease. The study was a descriptive literature study based on scientific articles. It emerged that both women and men with heart disease experienced lower quality of life compared to normative data. There was a significant difference between women and men both one year and three years after receiving the diagnosis heart disease, which showed that women experienced lower quality of life than men. The most common psychological reaction to heart disease was anxiety. Women were more anxious than men. Women were also, generally, more depressed than men after diagnosis. To suffer from heart disease resulted in great changes in lifestyle. How the patient was affected seems to depend on the social roll of the patient prior the heart disease and how the disease affected it.