Minnesota Living with Heart Failure Questionnaire (MLHFQ) Calculator

1. Overall, how much has heart failure prevented you from living as you wanted during the past month?

2. Did you feel short of breath?

3. Did you feel tired?

4. Did your heart failure make it difficult to walk or climb stairs?

5. Did you have difficulty doing daily activities at home?

6. Did you feel limited in social activities because of your heart failure?

7. Did you feel depressed?

8. Did you feel a burden on your family?

9. Did your heart failure make you feel like a burden to others?

10. Did you feel frustrated?

11. Did you feel worried?

12. Did your heart failure affect your sexual activities?

13. Did you feel sleepless?

14. Did you feel discomfort from swelling in your legs or feet?

15. Did you limit your traveling because of heart failure?

16. Did you feel short-tempered or irritable?

17. Did you feel lonely?

18. Did you have difficulty concentrating?

19. Did you have to take more medications than you wanted?

20. Did you feel your enjoyment of life was reduced?

21. Did your heart failure limit your ability to work?

Minnesota Living with Heart Failure Questionnaire (MLHFQ): Explanation and Clinical Context
The MLHFQ is a disease-specific instrument designed to assess the impact of heart failure on a patient’s quality of life over the past month.
It contains 21 items, each scored from 0 (no impact) to 5 (very much impact), covering both physical (items 1,2,3,4,5,14,15) and emotional (items 6,7,8,9,10,11,16,17,18) domains.
The total score ranges from 0 to 105, with higher scores reflecting worse quality of life.
Physical and emotional subscales allow clinicians to identify which aspects of life are most affected.
This tool is widely used in clinical trials, routine patient monitoring, and health outcomes research to guide therapy and evaluate interventions.

Reference:
Rector TS, Kubo SH, Cohn JN. "Patients’ self-assessment of their congestive heart failure: Development and validation of a new measure, the Minnesota Living with Heart Failure Questionnaire." Heart Failure. 1987;3:198-210.

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