Objective Taking the 36-item short-form health status survey （SF-36） as a standard

to evaluate the reliability

feasibility

and responsibility of the Chronic Heart Failure Quality of Life Scale of Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine. Methods A cross-section survey was conducted. Sixty-three chronic heart failure （CHF） in-patients were enrolled for investigation on quality of life. It was performed by filling in the Chronic Heart Failure Quality of Life Scale of Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine and SF-36. Cronbach’s α coefficient and split-half coefficient were used to evaluate the reliability of both scales. The feasibility was decided by the fulfilling time and accomplishing rate of the scales. And the responsibility was dependant on the changes of quality of life scores of the patients before and after treatment. Results The total Cronbach’s α coefficient of SF-36 was 0.896 and the split-half coefficient of total score was 0.903. The total Cronbach

s α coefficient of the Chronic Heart Failure Quality of Life Scale of Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine was 0.951 and the Split-half coefficient of total score was 0.960. The average responding time of SF-36 was （10.9±4.6）min

and that of Chronic Heart Failure Quality of Life Scale of Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine was （12.0±4.9）min. The accomplishing rate of the scales was both 96.83%. The difference of total score of quality of life of the scales before and after treatment was statistically significant （P<0.01）. Conclusion Compared with SF-36

the Chronic Heart Failure Quality of Life Scale of Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine is good on reliability and responsibility. It’s practical

so can be used as an instrument to measure the quality of life for chronic heart failure.