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Table 3 Items in the Cardiac Health Profile questionnaire (CHP)

From: Time trends of chest pain symptoms and health related quality of life in coronary artery disease

Item

 

1

How do you cope with tasks that require concentration and reflection?

2

Are you an active person, full of initiative or passive and listless?

3

Do you easily forget things in the immediate past or where, for example, you have placed things?

4

Do you easily understand and solve problems, make decisions adapt to new situations?

5

Do you feel depressed or have difficulty finding pleasure in things you used to find pleasant?

6

Do you easily become irritated, sad, worried, or anxious?

7

Do you often experience fear, uneasiness or anxiety?

8

Do you easily lose control over your feelings?

9

Are you satisfied with your sleep (quality of sleep, ability to fall asleep, etc.)?

10

Do you have a good relationship to those connected to you (family and friends)?

11

Are you satisfied with your daily life (at work, as a pensioner, as a housewife, as a student, etc.)?

12

Do you experience your leisure time as meaningful and enriching?

13

How is your sexual life?

14

Are you satisfied with your physical capacity to accomplish things you wish to do?

15

How do you experience your general health status?

16

Are you troubled by various kinds of pain other than your known anginal chest pain?

  1. The answers are marked on a 100 mm VAS-scale with verbal anchors expressing extremes. High scores indicates a bad Health Related Quality of Life