“…Construct validity was established by correlating the SS-QOL scores to scores on the Short Form 36-Item Health Survey (Ware & Sherbourne, 1992), Beck Depression Inventory (Beck, Ward, Mendelson, Mock, & Erbaugh, 1961), National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (Brott et al, 1989), and Barthel Index (Mahoney & Barthel, 1965 (Boosman, Passier, Visser-Meily, Rinkel, & Post, 2010;Ewert & Stucki, 2007;Lima et al, 2008;Lin et al, 2010;Muus et al, 2007).…”