the relationship between quality of life and cardiovascular self-efficacy in patients with heart failure: a descriptive correlation study

Background: cardiac insufficiency is one of the leading causes of mortality in the world and affects quality of life more than other chronic diseases. cardiac self-efficacy can be considered for improving the quality of life of patients with this disease. objectives: the purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between quality of life and cardiac self-efficacy in patients with heart failure. methods: this descriptive correlational study was performed on 227 patients with heart failure who referred to the cardiac clinics of isfahan university of medical sciences affiliated hospitals, iran, 2016-17. sampling was done in a simple random way. the data gathering tool was comprised of three parts: demographic data questionnaire, sullivan cardiac self-efficacy questionnaire, and quality of life questionnaire. data were analyzed by spss software version 22. results: the mean score of self-efficacy was 58.45 ± 25.92 and the mean score of satisfaction and importance of quality of life was 69.73 ± 18.72 and 82.76 ± 15.46, respectively. the results of this study showed that the importance of quality of life and satisfaction with quality of life are related to cardiac self-efficacy (p < 0.001). pearson correlation coefficients showed a direct correlation between the scores of quality of life dimensions and the score of cardiac self-efficacy (in all cases, p < 0.001). conclusions: there is a positive and significant relationship between quality of life and cardiovascular self-efficacy in patients with heart failure.