[Relationship between social-psycological factors and quality of life in old women with coronary heart disease].

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the influence of depression, social supports and quality of sleep and quality of life on old women who were 60 years or older and postmenopause with coronary heart disease.

METHODS: 125 old women with coronary heart disease completed questionnaires of Seattle Angina Questionnaire (SAQ), Social Support Scale (SSRS) and Self-rating Depression Scale (SDS). Logistic regression analysis and Spearman correlation analysis were performed to evaluate the relationship between social-psycological factors and quality of life.

RESULTS: 120 of questionnaires wereeffective (representing 96% of all collected questionnaires). Regression analysis showed that marital status (OR = 2.450), education (OR = 0.520), income (OR = 19.541) and course of disease (OR = 0.309) were associated with QOL in CHD (P < 0.05). Spearman analysis demonstrated that there were negative correlations between SQA score and PSQI and depression scores (r = -0.771, P < 0.01; r = -0.703, P < 0.05); and positive correlation between SQA score and Social support score (r = 0.565, P < 0.05).

CONCLUSION: Social-psychological factors might influence the quality of life in old women with coronary heart disease, it is important that physicians pay attention to these factors when they treat old women with coronary heart disease.