Quality of life in stroke survivors

Krančiukaitė, Daina; Rastenytė, Daiva; Jurėnienė, Kristina; Šopagienė, Diana

doi:10.3390/medicina43090095

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“…These results are consistent with the results of previous studies (7,12,13,25,(32)(33)(34)(35), although they include a heterogeneous population and employ HRQOL with a wider variety of scales, including studies conducted on Turkish population. In contrast, a study reports a slight change in HRQOL of patients with stroke (8).…”

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confidence: 83%

“…Some studies report different association between the level of education, age, gender, and HRQOL. There are a number of studies that demonstrate that female patients with stroke have lower HRQOL compared with males (10,25,39), although a study has reported no significant differences (33). Kranciukaite et al (33) demonstrated that HRQOL is correlated with education and employment.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Determining Quality of Life and Associated Factors in Patients with Stroke

Em¹,

Bozkurt²,

Karakoç³

et al. 2015

Turk J Phys Med Rehab

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Objective: This study aims to examine the overall and domain-specific quality of life in patients with stroke and to identify variables predicting quality of life after stroke. Material and Methods: A total of 104 patients with sufficient cognitive functions having hemiplegia because of cerebrovascular accident and 108 controls were included in this study. Demographic and clinical features were recorded. The Barthel Index (BI) and Functional Ambulation Category scale were employed to assess the functional state of patients. Quality of life was evaluated by the Short Form 36 (SF-36) health survey, whereas the emotional state of the patients was evaluated by the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS). Functional status, motor impairment, and emotional state were determined as independent variables, and multiple regression analysis was used to predict quality of life. Results: Patients had significantly lower scores in the quality of life subscores and total scores in comparison with the controls (p<0.001). The mean anxiety and depression rates in the patients were significantly higher than those in controls (p<0.001). The sum of subscores and physical composite score of SF-36 were significantly lower in female and illiterate patients than in male and educated patients. Multiple regression analyses indicated that HADS depression was associated with mental health (p<0.001), whereas BI was independently associated with the physical health total score (p<0.05). The power of the statistical analysis for study population was 100% according to the given effect size (α=0.01). Conclusion: Present results demonstrated that patients with stroke have a significantly poor quality of life than the general population. The reduced quality of life after stroke appears to be related the emotional state, physical disability, and demographic properties such as gender and education. Therefore, prevention of disability and early diagnosis and treatment of depression are vital in improving the quality of life of patients with stroke.

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confidence: 83%

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confidence: 99%

Determining Quality of Life and Associated Factors in Patients with Stroke

Em¹,

Bozkurt²,

Karakoç³

et al. 2015

Turk J Phys Med Rehab

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“…In relation to Sociodemographic and quality of life, the result revealed that the university, female, worked and urban patients had high mean score of quality of life with highly statistically differences. These results agreed with Kranciukaite et al, (2007) about "Quality of life in stroke survivors" who demonstrated that HRQOL is correlated with education and employment. These results were disagreed with Gargano and Reeves (2007) who was studying" Sex Differences in Stroke Recovery and Stroke-Specific Quality of Life" found that females had lower SSQOL than males.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 90%

Effect of a Design Discharge Planning Program for Stroke Patients on Their Quality of Life and Activity of Daily Living

Taha¹,

Ibrahim²

2020

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Background: Stroke is a debilitating neurological disorder, which causes multiple physical and psychosocial challenges to people surviving a stroke. Effective discharge planning program is an active process beginning in hospitalization care and has a goal of returning to the community and aims at assisting the patients to recapture their functional independence and to return to an active and productive lifestyle. Aim: was to evaluate effect of a design discharge planning program for stroke patients on their quality of life and activity of daily living. Research design: Quasi experimental design was utilized to fulfill the aim of this study. Setting: The study was conducted at the stroke department and stroke outpatient clinics affiliated to Benha University Hospital. Sample: A convenience sample of 50 patients admitted at the above mentioned setting and diagnosed with stroke. Tools: Three tools were used: I-Patients Interviewing questionnaire sheet; II-Stroke Specific Quality of Life Scale and III-Barthel Index for Activities of Daily Living. Results: the present study revealed that (a) the mean total and subtotal knowledge scores of stroke patients were increased immediately after implementing a design discharge planning program with statistical significant difference compared to pre implementation. (b) The mean total and subtotal quality of life scores were higher after implementing discharge planning program with a high statistical significant difference compared to pre implementation. (c) The mean total and subtotal activity of daily living scores were higher after implementing discharge planning program with a high statistical significant difference compared to pre implementation. (d) There were a positive correlation between patients' knowledge, quality of life and activity of daily living with a statistical significant difference. So, all research hypotheses of the study were supported. Conclusion: Applying a design discharge planning program had statistically significant improvement on knowledge, quality of life and activity of daily living for studied patients. Recommendations: replication of this study on a larger probability sample and evaluating its impact on health outcomes among stroke patients.Keywords: design discharge planning program, quality of life, activity of daily living, stroke http://journal.julypress.com/index.php/ijsn Vol. 5, No. 1; 2020 II-Part two: which consisted of (8) questions about patients activities of daily living. It is composed of http://journal.julypress.com/index.php/ijsn Vol. 5, No. 1; 2020 -Patients were informed about the time of the next session at the end of the session.

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“…2,4,7,8,20 A number of studies demonstrated that female patients with stroke have lower HRQoL compared with males, although one study has reported no significant differences. 4,5,8,20 7,21 The inconsistency between the studies may be related to the design of the studies, patients' characteristics, and using different scales to assess deterioration of HRQoL in stroke patients. In the current study, there was no significant gender difference in terms of HRQoL.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%