Quality of life and its related predictors among acute coronary syndrome patients with coronary stents in Ho Chi Minh City, 2022

The health-related quality of life (HRQOL) assessment after coronary stents insertion to issue a very crucial tool for evaluating outcomes. Therefore, we investigated the associations between healthy affect, resilience to improve their health status and the quality of life of patient is improving. A cross-sectional design involving patients with having acute coronary syndrome (ACS) after coronary stents insertion (CSI) and being treated in the hospital in Ho Chi Minh City. The patients (N =210) who came to Tam Duc Heart Hospital for pre- examination during treatment were asked to answer questionnaires which included SF-36 and resilience-25. The t-test and ANOVA was applied to identify the factors related to quality of life and resilience. Result showed the mean score of resilience is 70.2 ± 8.1. The score of physical components summary (PCS) was range from 32.37 to 61.6 and the mean score was 51.0 ± 8.7. For the mental component summary (MCS) was range from 39.6 to 60.0 with the mean score was 51.0±5.7. Factors including age, gender, marital status, working status, education, duration after stent treatment, experience of hospitalization for stent treatment, number of stents in patients and regularly take medication were associated with patients’ quality of life. The mean score of quality of life was significantly different between patients’ resilience level (p < 0.05).