الفهرس 
Congestive Heart FailureOnly 14 pages are availabe for public view
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Abstract
Patients who have heart failure need to accept health alteration and positive coping with chronic symptoms and maintain a good health-related quality of life as guaranteeing their survival. Aim:Assess the relationship between severity of symptoms, resilience and health-related quality of life for patients with congestive heart failure. Design: A descriptive, correlational design was employed.Setting: El-Salam general hospital and Al-Nasr specialized hospitalin Egypt Health care Authority hospitals in Port Said governorate. Subjects:Purposive sample of 98 patients with CHF adult patients of both sexes who agreed to participate in the research with inclusion criteria patients who had been given a one-year congestive heart failure diagnosis. Tools: Patients’ characteristics questionnaire, Anderson Symptom Inventory MD, the Resilience Scale, and the Patients’health-related Quality of Life.Results:The majority of the patients (66.3%)significantly had sever level of severity and symptom interfering with patients’ life, also (42.9%)of themhad high level of resilience and majority of them (75.5%) had average level of total health-related quality of life.Conclusion: There is a negative correlation between the distress symptoms exhibited by the patient and their overall level of resilience, as supported by statistical analysis. Besides, a substantial negative correlation was recorded between the distress symptoms experienced by the patients and their overall health-related quality of life.