Health-Related Quality of Life and Associated Factors among Children with Rheumatic Heart Disease Attending Cardiac Outpatients at Selected Public Hospitals In Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2024

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2024-06-13

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Addis Ababa University

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Rheumatic heart disease has a great negative impact on the health-related quality of life (HRQOL) of children by limiting their physical activity, cognitive and emotional, social, and academic functioning. Children with RHD have significantly varying HRQOLs in different parts of the world. However, there was no study done on HRQOL of children with RHD in the study.

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Health Related Quality of Life, Children, Rheumatic Heart Disease

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