Cardiovascular disease screening positively impacts quality of life: No significant emotional distress found CVD Cardiovascular Heart Cardiology Medicine ClinicalMedicine escardio
By Pooja Toshniwal PahariaMay 29 2023Reviewed by Benedette Cuffari, M.Sc. In a recent study published in European Heart Journal Open, researchers evaluate the impacts of population-level cardiovascular disease screening on health-related quality of life . The effects of receiving an invitation for screening, positive test results, prophylactic treatment initiation, enrollment in surveillance schemes at surgical departments, and preventive surgical repair on HRQoL were assessed.
Sources of harm include physical discomfort from screening, as well as subsequent therapy and psychological discomfort from risk awareness and enrollment in surveillance programs. Both sources can be measured using generic HRQoL instruments such as the EuroQoL. Repeated HRQoL measurements were obtained for up to three years using EuroQol scales such as the EuroQol 5-dimension profile index to assess anxiety/depression using the preference weights for Denmark and the EuroQol visual analogue scale to evaluate overall health. The mean values for changes in scores in the events following CVD screening were calculated.
Results The attendees were reportedly slightly better off HRQoL-wise than non-attendees on all EuroQol scales. In regard to the receipt of test results, initiating prophylactic therapy, being recruited in surveillance schemes, and surgical restoration, CVD screening did not significantly impact HRQoL. However, a minor effect of being recruited for CVD surveillance schemes on emotional discomfort was observed in the unmatched data but not in the matched data.
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