Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về sinh học được đăng trên tạp chí hóa học quốc tế đề tài : Quality of life among parents of children with heart disease | BioMed Central Health and Quality of Life Outcomes Research Quality of life among parents of children with heart disease Mostafa A Arafa 1 Salah R Zaher2 Amira A El-Dowaty3 and Dalia E Moneeb4 Address Epidemiology Department High Institute of Public Health Alexandria University Alexandria Egypt 2Pediatric Department Faculty of Medicine Alexandria University Alexandria Egypt 3Mental Health Department High Institute of Public Health Alexandria University Alexandria Egypt and 4Fellow of Epidemiology High Institute of Public Health Alexandria University Alexandria Egypt Email Mostafa A Arafa - mostafaarafa@ Salah R Zaher - Szaher@ Amira A El-Dowaty - Amdowati@ Dalia E Moneeb - mostafaarafa@ Corresponding author Open Access Published 3 November 2008 Received 8 January 2008 Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2008 6 91 doi 1477-7525-6-91 Accepted 3 November 2008 This article is available from http content 6 1 91 2008 Arafa et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract__ Background Quality of life of parents of chronically ill children has become increasingly important as the mortality rates associated with such illnesses have decreased and survival rates have increased. Aim To describe the Health related quality of life HRQOL of parents whose children are suffering from heart diseases and to identify the most important factors that could affect it. Methods A cross sectional study was conducted in Alexandria Egypt in the two main hospitals that treat children with heart diseases. 400 parents of children with heart diseases were recruited and a comparison group 400
