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Return to work and associations with psychosocial well-being and health-related quality of life in coronary heart disease patients: Results from EUROASPIRE IV by Cauter, Joy Van de; Bacquer, Dirk De; Clays, Els; Smedt, Delphine De; Kotseva, Kornelia; Braeckman, Lutgart is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.

## Background: Coronary heart disease (chd) can lead to loss of workability and early retirement. we aimed to investigate return to work (rtw) and its relationship towards psychosocial well-being and health-related quality of life (hrqol). ## Design: Secondary analyses were applied to cross-sectional data from the euroaspire iv survey (european action on secondary and primary prevention through intervention to reduce events). ## Methods: Participants were examined and interviewed at 6-36 months following the recruiting event. psychosocial well-being and hrqol were evaluated by completing the 'hospital anxiety and depression scale' and 'heartqol' questionnaire. using generalised mixed models, we calculated the odds ratios for rtw. depression, anxiety and adjusted means of heartqol were estimated accounting for rtw. ## Results: Out of 3291 employed patients, the majority (76.0%) returned to work, of which 85.6% were men, but there was a general underrepresentation of women. young ( < 0.001), high-educated ( < 0.001) patients without prior cardiovascular events ( < 0.05) were better off regarding rtw. no significant associations with chd risk factors and cardiac rehabilitation were es

Author

Cauter, Joy Van de; Bacquer, Dirk De; Clays, Els; Smedt, Delphine De; Kotseva, Kornelia; Braeckman, Lutgart

Publisher

SAGE Publications; SAGE Publications Ltd; Oxford University Press (OUP) (ISSN 2047-4873)

Published

2019

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)