ARTICLE RETRACTED: "Changes in the quality of life among patients with chronic heart failure after applying diaphragmatic breathing at 108 Military central Hospital"

Abstract

Objectives: To describe the quality of life in patients with chronic heart failure and to evaluate changes in the quality of life after applying diaphragmatic breathing at 108 Military Central Hospital in 2021.

Subjects and methods: The one-group pretest-posttest design was conducted on patients with chronic heart failure who were treated at the Department of Cardiology, 108 Central Military Hospital during the period from October 2020 to February 2021.

Results: The proportion of patients with quality of life at moderate, low and very low were 40%, 33.3%, and 24.4%, respectively. Patients reported high level quality of life accounted for only 2.2% and no one achieved very high level. The quality of life of women with heart failure is lower than that of men in all areas. In all areas in the EQ-5D-3L scale, there was an improvement in quality of life at both 1 and 3 months after the intervention. After 1 month, only 1 in 5 domains (Ambulation) had a statistically significant difference, and after 3 months, 3 in 5 of the domains (Ambulation, self-care and pain/discomfort) reached statistically significant difference.

Conclusions: The quality of life in all areas of chronic heart failure patients decreased. After rehabilitation exercise by diaphragmatic breathing, the patient’s quality of life increased significantly according to the CLCS EQ-5D-5L assessment scale. The exercise can be applied to clinical practice in units that treat patients with chronic heart failure