The effect of religiosity on quality of life in Muslim patients with heart failure: a study in Qom, the religious capital of Iran

ABSTRACT

Due to the low quality of life (QoL) in patients with heart failure, many researchers attempted to find new ways to improve the QoL in these patients. This study was conducted to determine the relationship between QoL and religious attitudes of patients with heart failure. In this cross-sectional study, 130 male and female patients with heart failure were selected based on the inclusion criteria. Data were collected using 36-item short form Quality of Life and structured Religious Attitude Questionnaires. The average age of subjects was 59.50 ± 12.29; also, 52.3% of them were female. A significant relationship was observed between patients’ QoL and their religious attitudes in mental (p = .03) and general health (p = .04) dimensions, but religious attitude had no significant correlation with physical health dimension (p = .66) and the total score of QoL (p = .30). At the end, it was concluded that religious beliefs can improve patients’ quality of life.

KEYWORDS:

• Heart failure
• quality of life
• religious attitudes
• religiosity

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

ORCID

Seyed Ahmad Bathaei http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1677-3377

Mohammad Heidari http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7418-4509

Hamid Asayesh http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9916-9476