Comparative Study of Survival and Long-term Quality of Life After Cardiac Surgery in Patients Who Are Jehovah's Witnesses

This is a comparative study on the survival and long-term quality of life of Jehovah's witnesses having undergone a cardiac surgery and having refused blood transfusions for religious reasons. This group will be compared with two other groups having no restrictions on this subject.

The purpose of the study is to evaluate the impact of this decision on survival and postoperative quality of life, in the long term.

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Key information

Conditions

Cardiac Surgery

Age range

18 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Observational

Primary location

CHU Brugmann

Brussels, 1020, Belgium

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

Cardiac surgery with extra corporeal blood circulation
Informed consent given

Exclusion criteria

Dementia (must be able to answer the questionnaire)
Control group: refusal of blood transfusions

Treatment and study plan

cardiac surgery

Procedure

Cardiac surgery

Primary outcomes

Quality of life (score)

Time frame: Evaluated once by means of a phone contact performed in 2016, irrespective of the date the surgery was performed

Score computed with the "MacNew Heart Disease health-related quality of life instrument".The MacNew is a valuable tool for assessing and evaluating health related quality of life in heart disease patients. It consists of 27 questions, falling into 3 possible domains: physicial limitation capacity (13 questions), emotional domain (14 questions), social domain (13 questions), symptom related (5 questions). The time frame for the MacNew is the previous two weeks. Scoring of the MacNew is simple: one score in each domain and a global score (4 scores). The maximum possible score in any domain is 7 [high HRQL] and the minimum is 1 [poor HRQL].The global score is calculated as the average over all scored items unless one of the domains is completely missing.
Survival rate

Time frame: Evaluated once by means of a phone contact performed in 2016, irrespective of the date the surgery was performed

Survival rate

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Pierre Wauthy

Other

Registry information

Important dates

Study start: 2016
Primary completion: 2017
Study completion: 2017
First posted: Nov 20, 2017
Registry last updated: Nov 22, 2017

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