The influence of chosen socio-demographic factors on life quality of the stroke patients - introductory research
Keywords:
stroke, quality of life, SSQoL, socio-demographic factorsAbstract
Introduction and aim: The aim of the paper was to evaluate the influence of chosen socio-demographic factors (age, gender, marital status, place of residence, source of income, housing conditions) on quality of life of stroke patients.
Material and methods: Research included 60 patients after their first hemispheric stroke treated in 2012 at the rehabilitation ward of a provincial hospital. The measurement of quality of life was conducted by means of the Polish version of Stroke-Specific Quality of Life Scale which enables obtaining the profile of quality of life within twelve subscales and general quality of life.
Results: Quality of life after stroke deteriorates significantly with age (rS = - 0,395; p<0,001). People who are professionally active show the best quality of life ( x = 4,04), so the source of income influences the quality of life strongly (F = 7,293; p<0,001). The housing conditions of the subjects also influence the quality of life strongly (F = 3,715; p<0,05). The better the housing conditions (average x = 2,77; good x = 2,96; very good x = 3,69), the better the quality of life.
Conclusions: The quality of life of stroke survivors depends on the age, housing conditions and the source of living. Gender and place of living do not influence the quality of life of the subjects in any of the surveyed areas.
Downloads
References
Pasek J, Opara J, Pasek T, Szwejkowski W, Sieroń A. Znaczenie badań nad jakością życia w rehabilitacji. Fizjoterapia 2007;15,3: 3-8.
Ahmed S, Mayo NE, Corbiere M, Wood-Dauphinee S, Hanley J, Cohen R. Change in quality of life of people with stroke over time: True change or response shift? Qual Life Res 2005;14:611-627.
Haacke C, Althaus A, Spottke A, Siebert U, Back T, Dodel R. Long-term outcome after stroke. Evaluating health-related quality of life using utility measurements. Stroke 2006;37:193-198.
Jaracz K, Kozubski W. Pomiar jakości życia po udarze mózgu z zastosowaniem polskiej wersji Sickness Impact Profile. Postępy Rehabil 2003;1:46-52.
Rykała J, Kwolek A. Wpływ wybranych czynników na jakość życia oraz stan funkcjonalny pacjentów po udarze mózgu. Przegląd Medyczny Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego 2009;4:384–391.
Brola W, Węgrzyn W. Jakość życia po udarze mózgu. Studia Medyczne Akademii Świętokrzyskiej 2006;3:161-167.
Williams LS, Weinberger M, Harris LE, Clark DO, Biller J. Development of Stroke-Specific Quality of Life Scale. Stroke 1999;30:1362-9.
Bejer A. Validation analysis of polish version of the Stroke-Specific Quality of Life Scale. New clinimetrics methods in physiotherapy. W: Konsorcjum Akademickie Kraków-Rzeszów-Zamość 2010;163-183.
Bejer A. Kwolek A. Polska adaptacja skali Stroke-Specific Quality of Life. Postępy Rehabil 2009;1:41-46.
de Haan RJ, Limburg M, van der Meulen JHP, Jacobs HM, Aaronson NK.Quality of life after stroke: Impact of stroke type and lesion location. Stroke 1995;26:402-408.
Nichols-Larsen DS, Clark PC, Zeringue A, Greenspan A, Blanton S. Factors influencing stroke survivors’ quality of life during subacute recovery. Stroke 2005;36:1480-1484.
Gokkaya NKO, Aras MD, Cakci A. Health – related quality of life of Turkish stroke survivors. Int J Rehabil Res 2005;28:229-235.
McKenzie AE, Chang AM. Predictors of quality of life following stroke. Disabil Rehabil 2002;24,5:259-265.
Gray LJ, Sprigg N, Bath PMW i wsp. Ringelstein EB for the TAIST Investigators. Sex Differences in Quality of Life in Stroke Survivors Data From the Tinzaparin in Acute Ischaemic Stroke Trial (TAIST). Stroke 2007;38:2960-2964.
Zalihić A, Markotić V, Zalihić D, Mabić M. Gender and quality of life after cerebral stroke. Bosn J Basic Med Sci 2010;10,2:94-99.
Bushnell CD, Reeves MJ, Zhao X i wsp. Sex differences in quality of life after ischemic stroke. Neurology 2014; 18,82,11:922-931.
Carod-Artal J, Egido JA, González JL, de Seijas V. Quality of life among stroke survivors evaluated 1 year after stroke. Experience of a stroke unit. Stroke 2000;31:2995- 3000.
Baumann M, Couffignal S, Le Bihan E, Chau N. Life satisfaction two-years after stroke onset: the effects of gender, sex occupational status, memory function and quality of life among stroke patients (Newsqol) and their family caregivers (Whoqol-bref) in Luxembourg. BMC Neurology 2012;12,1:105-115.
Kim P, Warren S, Madill H, Hadley M. Quality of life of stroke survivors. Qual Life Res 1999;8:293-301.
Naess H, Waje-Andreassen U, Thomassen L, Nyland H, Morten K. Health-related quality of life among young adults with ischemic stroke on long-term follow-up. Stroke 2006;37:1232-1236.
Kauhanen ML, Korpelainen JT, Hiltunen P, Nieminen P, Sotaniemi KA, Myllylä VV. Domains and determinants of quality of life after stroke caused by brain infarction. Arch Phys Med Rehabil 2000;81:1541-1546.
Tasiemski T, Knopczyńska A, Wilski M. Jakość życia osób po udarze mózgu - badania pilotażowe. Gerontol. Pol. 2010:18,3:128–133.
Muss I, Petzold M, Ringsberg KC. Health-related quality of life among Danish patients 3 and 12 months after TIA or mild stroke. Scand J Caring Sci 2010; 24,2:211-8.
Varon SM. Going back to work after a stroke. Top Stroke Rehabilitation 1997;4:65–67.
Vestling M, Tufvesson B, Iwarsson S. Indicators for return to work after stroke and the importance of work for subjective well-being and life satisfaction. J. Reh. Med. 2003;35:127–131.
Vestling M, Ramel E, Iwarsson S. Quality of life after stroke: Well-being, life satisfaction and subjective aspect of work. Scand J Occup Ther 2005;12:89-95.
Ones K, Yilmaz E, Cetinkaya B, Caglar N. Quality of life for patients poststroke and the factors affecting it. J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis 2005;15,6:261-266.
Lau A, McKenna K. Conceptualizing quality of life for elderly people with stroke. Disabil Rehabil 2001;23:227-238.
Sturm JW, Donnan GA, Dewey HM i wsp. Quality of life after stroke. The North East Melbourne Stroke Incidence Study (NEMESIS). Stroke 2004;35:2340-2345.
Downloads
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2014 Medical Journal of the Rzeszow University and the National Medicines Institute, Warsaw
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Our open access policy is in accordance with the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) definition: this means that articles have free availability on the public Internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from having access to the Internet itself.
All articles are published with free open access under the CC-BY Creative Commons attribution license (the current version is CC-BY, version 4.0). If you submit your paper for publication by the Eur J Clin Exp Med, you agree to have the CC-BY license applied to your work. Under this Open Access license, you, as the author, agree that anyone may download and read the paper for free. In addition, the article may be reused and quoted provided that the original published version is cited. This facilitates freedom in re-use and also ensures that Eur J Clin Exp Med content can be mined without barriers for the research needs.
