Clinical trial NCT03050112: Long-term Quality of Life of Patients With a Congenital Heart Disease, Treated by Surgery in Adulthood at the Brugmann Hospital.
Official title: Long-term Quality of Life of Patients With a Congenital Heart Disease, Treated by Surgery in Adulthood at the Brugmann Hospital.
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Congenital Heart Disease
Keywords: MacNew questionnaire
Quality of life
Lead sponsor: Brugmann University Hospital
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2017-02-10
Enrollment: 250
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 16
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: NA
Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose: OTHER

Brief summary: Adults with a congenital heart disease, having undergone a surgical intervention or a re-do surgery in adulthood, are a growing group of subjects in the general population. This increase is explained by improved medical and surgical techniques, with a better survival rate as outcome.

There is nowadays a growing interest in the quality of life of this group of subjects. However, studies give contradictory results. This can be explained on one hand by the vast majority of pathologies within this population, and on the other hand by the absence of a cardio-specific tool for quality of life measurement.

The MacNew questionnaire is cardio-specific. It allows an evaluation of the quality of life based on the exploration of three domains: physical, emotional and social.

The aim of this study is:

* to evaluate the quality of life of these patients, by using the MacNew questionnaire
* to explore the needs in terms of prevention, treatment and multi-disciplinary follow-up
* to assess the mortality within this group of patients.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

Patients having had surgery in adulthood for a congenital heart disease, at the Brugmann University Hospital. The group consists in patients aged 16 years or older, having had surgery between 01/01/1998 and 31/12/2015

Exclusion Criteria:

None

Primary outcomes:
measure: MacNew questionnaire
timeFrame: 30 minutes
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Brussels
country: Belgium
facility: CHU Brugmann
Study officials:
affiliation: CHU Brugmann
name: Halit Ozel
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
affiliation: CHU Brugmann
name: Pierre Wauthy, MD
role: STUDY_DIRECTOR
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