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APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY-HEALTH AND WELL BEING
Volume 15, Issue 1, Pages 152-171Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/aphw.12403
Keywords
coronary heart disease; loneliness; medical adherence; mental health-related quality of life; physical health-related quality of life
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This study examined the impact of loneliness on the physical and mental health-related quality of life (HRQoL) of patients with coronary heart disease (CHD). The results showed that loneliness predicted both physical and mental HRQoL after 9 months, and this relationship was partially mediated by medical adherence.
This study investigated whether loneliness would predict physical and mental health-related quality of life (HRQoL) over 9 months and examined whether medical adherence would mediate their associations in patients with coronary heart disease (CHD). The overall design is a three-wave longitudinal study. A sample of 255 outpatients with CHD was recruited from a community-based cardiac rehabilitation programme. Participants, with a mean age of 63 years, completed measures assessing loneliness, depression and physical and mental HRQoL at baseline. Medical adherence was assessed at 3 months, and physical and mental HRQoL were reassessed at 9 months. A total of 88% of participants reported moderate or high loneliness. Baseline loneliness predicted physical and mental HRQoL at 9 months after adjusting for baseline physical and mental HRQoL, respectively. The effects remained significant when depression was also adjusted. Medical adherence at 3 months partially mediated the associations of baseline loneliness with 9-month physical and mental HRQoL. Findings underline the necessity of assessing loneliness for CHD patients to promote long-term medical adherence and further improve physical and mental HRQoL.
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