Development of Dance Movement Therapy Program for Chronic Stroke Patient and Effect of its Application on Postural Stability Ability, Depression and Quality of Life

Relationships among Self-Care Competency, Presence of Depressive Symptom, and Health-Related Quality of Life of Korean Stroke Patients

“…In this study, the health-related quality of life, according to the participants’s general characteristics, was higher in males than in females. The studies of Park et al (2012), Hong (2017), and Kim et al (2009) also showed a higher health-related quality of life in males than in females, thereby supporting the result of this study. As for the education level, the health-related quality of life was higher in high school and college graduates than in the elementary and middle school graduates.…”

“…In addition, a patient with a higher self-care competency has a higher health-related quality of life. The study result of Kang (2015) that showed a significantly negative correlation between presence of depressive symptom and health-related quality of life in stroke patients and the study results of Hong (2017), Jingwen et al (2018), and Kang (2015) were all consistent with the result of this study. Then this study showed that if the level of presence of depressive symptom was lower, the self-care competency and health-related quality of life were higher.…”

“…General characteristics of the study participants were consistent with previous studies (Hong, 2017;Jingwen et al, 2018;Kang, 2015;Lee, 2009;Mavaddat et al, 2018;Park et al, 2015). Especially, there were more male and on job among the subjects with stroke.…”

“…As for the education level, the health-related quality of life was higher in high school and college graduates than in the elementary and middle school graduates. In the studies of Hong (2017) and Kim et al (2009), the health-related quality of life was higher in the patients who received high school or higher level education than in the elementary and middle school graduates, thereby supporting the result of this study. The patients with occupations had a higher health-related quality of life than those without any occupation, which was consistent with the findings of Park et al (2012) and Kim et al (2009).…”

“…The study of Kim et al (2009) showed that the health-related quality of life was lowest in patients with right-sided paralysis, but it was higher in the patients without paralysis, followed by patients with left-sided paralysis, and patients with bilateral paralysis, in that order. In the study of Hong (2017), the health-related quality of life was lowest in patients with bilateral paralysis, and it was higher in patients with no paralysis, followed by patients with left-sided paralysis, and patients with right-sided paralysis. In terms of the presence of risk-factors or other diseases, the health-related quality level of life of patients with another disease was lower, which seems to be caused by the stress or difficulty of additional disease care along with the stroke (Hong, 2017; Jingwen et al, 2018).…”