BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: A cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of mortality in the world especially in developing countries. The primary objective of this study was to determine the quality of life in CVD patients living in Quetta, Pakistan and to provide better health to these patients in future. METHODS AND DESIGN: A cross-sectional, questionnaire based survey was conducted in March 2016 to September 2016. Total 227 patients participated from different tertiary care hospitals in this study. Convenience sampling was applied due to short period of time. All the collected information was summarized through SPSS and then analyzes it manually. RESULTS: Research shows poor quality of life among CVD patients. Different articles were studied for this purpose. Total of 227 patients QoL was studied using MLHFQ instrument. Factors like age, sex, qualification, mostly affect the QoL. MLHFQ contains three different categories among which physical and emotional factors have worst impact on QoL. CONCLUSION: The result of the study shows poor quality of life of cardio vascular patients. In addition to CVD if people have some other chronic diseases then HRQoL of them is further lowering. For better QoL among these patientâs health programmers must be conducting to improve their QoL.
