ASSESSMENT OF THE QUALITY OF LIFE OF PATIENTS WITH DISEASES OF THE CIRCULATORY SYSTEM

Aim of research is comparative study of the life quality of patients with diseases of the circulatory system, living in urban and rural areas in South Kazakhstan region. Material and methods. The study deals with research of life quality of 332 patients with circulatory system diseases (the main group), applied to different medical organizations in South Kazakhstan region. An anonymous questionnaire survey, using the Russian version of the questionnaire “Medical Outcome Study-Short Forms” (SF-36). The comparison group consisted of 116 apparently healthy persons with comparably basic characteristics with the group of examined patients. Results. Research has shown that the mean total score of quality of life was lower than in patients, applied to medical organizations with various circulatory system diseases than healthy ones – 59.5 vs. 81.3 points (by 21.9 points). The largest gap between the main group and the comparison group had taken place with indicators of physical component of quality of life (27.8 points), while mental component differed by 16 points. Identified the difference in the quality of life in groups of patients of rural hospitals and regional cardiological centre (over 40%) in groups of patients in rural and Central distric hospitals (about 30%) in groups of patients of the regional cardiology centre and district hospitals (15%). Conclusions. The average values of the total score of life quality was significantly lower than that in patients presenting in a medical institution about the various circulatory diseases than in healthy persons. It is equally treated as physical and mental component of health. However, more diseases of the circulatory system influenced the physical component of human life. It is shown that increasing of the quality of life of patients with circulatory system diseases from rural hospitals to central district hospitals and regional cardiac centre, indicates on impact of life conditions and quality of medical care.