What’s love got to do with it? Relationship quality appraisals and quality of life in couples facing cardiovascular disease
ABSTRACTObjective Changes in couples’ relationship quality are common post-cardiac event but it is unclear how relationship quality is linked to patients’ and spouses’ quality of life (QoL). The purpose of the present study was to examine the association between relationship quality on QoL in patien...
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| author | Karen Bouchard Alexandre Gareau Paul S. Greenman Kathleen Lalande Karolina Sztajerowska Heather Tulloch |
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| description | ABSTRACTObjective Changes in couples’ relationship quality are common post-cardiac event but it is unclear how relationship quality is linked to patients’ and spouses’ quality of life (QoL). The purpose of the present study was to examine the association between relationship quality on QoL in patient-spouse dyads within six months of a cardiac event.Methods Participants (N = 181 dyads; 25.9% female patients), recruited from a large cardiac hospital, completed validated questionnaires measuring demographic, relationship (Dyadic Adjustment Scale; DAS) and QoL variables (Heart-QoL & Quality of life of Cardiac Spouses Questionnaire). An Actor-Partner Interdependence Model was used to investigate actor (i.e. responses influencing their own outcome) and partner effects (responses influencing their partner’s outcome) of relationship quality and QoL.Results Patients’ and spouses’ perceptions of relationship quality were in the satisfied range (DAS > 108; 65% of sample) and, as expected, patients reported lower general physical QoL than did their spouse (t(180) = −10.635, p < .001). Patient and spouse relationship quality appraisals were positively associated with their own physical (patient β = .25; spouse β = .05) and emotional/social (patient β = .21; spouse β = .04) QoL. No partner effects were identified.Conclusion High quality relationship appraisals appear to matter for patients’ and spouses’ QoL after the onset of CVD. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-2378a0ca79634b6c812d339267bec7402024-03-25T16:25:58ZengTaylor & Francis GroupHealth Psychology and Behavioral Medicine2164-28502023-12-0111110.1080/21642850.2023.2237564What’s love got to do with it? Relationship quality appraisals and quality of life in couples facing cardiovascular diseaseKaren Bouchard0Alexandre Gareau1Paul S. Greenman2Kathleen Lalande3Karolina Sztajerowska4Heather Tulloch5Prevention and Rehabilitation Center, Division of Cardiac Prevention and Rehabilitation, University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ottawa, CanadaLaval University, Laval, CanadaPrevention and Rehabilitation Center, Division of Cardiac Prevention and Rehabilitation, University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ottawa, CanadaPrevention and Rehabilitation Center, Division of Cardiac Prevention and Rehabilitation, University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ottawa, CanadaFaculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, CanadaPrevention and Rehabilitation Center, Division of Cardiac Prevention and Rehabilitation, University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ottawa, CanadaABSTRACTObjective Changes in couples’ relationship quality are common post-cardiac event but it is unclear how relationship quality is linked to patients’ and spouses’ quality of life (QoL). The purpose of the present study was to examine the association between relationship quality on QoL in patient-spouse dyads within six months of a cardiac event.Methods Participants (N = 181 dyads; 25.9% female patients), recruited from a large cardiac hospital, completed validated questionnaires measuring demographic, relationship (Dyadic Adjustment Scale; DAS) and QoL variables (Heart-QoL & Quality of life of Cardiac Spouses Questionnaire). An Actor-Partner Interdependence Model was used to investigate actor (i.e. responses influencing their own outcome) and partner effects (responses influencing their partner’s outcome) of relationship quality and QoL.Results Patients’ and spouses’ perceptions of relationship quality were in the satisfied range (DAS > 108; 65% of sample) and, as expected, patients reported lower general physical QoL than did their spouse (t(180) = −10.635, p < .001). Patient and spouse relationship quality appraisals were positively associated with their own physical (patient β = .25; spouse β = .05) and emotional/social (patient β = .21; spouse β = .04) QoL. No partner effects were identified.Conclusion High quality relationship appraisals appear to matter for patients’ and spouses’ QoL after the onset of CVD.https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/21642850.2023.2237564Cardiovascular diseasecouplesrelationship qualityquality of life |
| spellingShingle | Karen Bouchard Alexandre Gareau Paul S. Greenman Kathleen Lalande Karolina Sztajerowska Heather Tulloch What’s love got to do with it? Relationship quality appraisals and quality of life in couples facing cardiovascular disease Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine Cardiovascular disease couples relationship quality quality of life |
| title | What’s love got to do with it? Relationship quality appraisals and quality of life in couples facing cardiovascular disease |
| title_full | What’s love got to do with it? Relationship quality appraisals and quality of life in couples facing cardiovascular disease |
| title_fullStr | What’s love got to do with it? Relationship quality appraisals and quality of life in couples facing cardiovascular disease |
| title_full_unstemmed | What’s love got to do with it? Relationship quality appraisals and quality of life in couples facing cardiovascular disease |
| title_short | What’s love got to do with it? Relationship quality appraisals and quality of life in couples facing cardiovascular disease |
| title_sort | what s love got to do with it relationship quality appraisals and quality of life in couples facing cardiovascular disease |
| topic | Cardiovascular disease couples relationship quality quality of life |
| url | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/21642850.2023.2237564 |
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