摘要：The purpose of the current investigation was to compare quality of life and depression in heart failure patients and healthy individuals. The population of study included all referrals to Al-Zahra hospital of Sari, Iran and two cardiologist doctors’ offices from October 2nd till December 11th in the year 2014 for check-ups or treatment. Sampling method and the sample size were 200 cardiac patients as purposeful and 100 healthy subjects randomly that a total of 300 subjects in two groups of 200 cardiac patients and 100 healthy subjects were selected to complete questionnaires of the research. Questionnaires of HADS and quality of life SF-12 were used to measure the depression and the quality of life respectively. T-test for the two samples was used independently as well as SPSS software for data analysis. The results showed that there were significant differences in depression and quality of life between heart failure patients and healthy individuals so that, depression in people with heart failure was more than in healthy people and the quality of life was less in heart failure patients rather than in healthy individuals
关键词：depression; quality of life; heart failure patient.
