RESUMO
A questionnaire was prepared for the evaluation of the quality of life directed at assessment of the patient's attitude to changes that had taken place in his life due to his illness. Results of observations of 124 patients (94 with myocardial infarction and 30 with arterial hypertension) show the validity of the questionnaire and its discriminant possibility. Difference in the indices of quality of life has been established between the infarction and the hypertensive patients. In persons who retained working capacity and in patients used to physical exercise the overall index of quality of life was higher than invalids or patients who were not used to physical training. In persons with low overall index of quality of life MMPI, according to 1, 2, 7 and 8 scales, were statistically significantly higher than in persons with high overall index of quality of life. The method permits one not only to give a quantitative assessment of the quality of life as a whole, but also to take into consideration concrete reasons for its deterioration.
