Quality of Life For Patients with Cerebrovascular Stroke

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 B.Sc. Nursing, Faculty of Nursing - Banha University

2 Assistant professor of medical surgical nursing - Faculty of Nursing Port Said University

Abstract

Background: Cerebrovascular stroke (CVS) had poor quality of life (QOL). Quality of Life (QoL) assessment was an important part of the evaluation of stroke patients. Aim:  assess quality of life for patients with cerebrovascular stroke Method: a descriptive research design was utilized. Setting: study was conducted  in the inpatient Neurology department and outpatient clinical at, El-Azhar university hospital and Port Said general hospital. Subjects: A convenient sample of 150 adult patients with cerebrovascular stroke admitted to above  mentioned settingswere participating in the study.Tool: data were collected using two tools,tool one: A Stroke-Specific Quality of Life Scale,and tool two structured interviews: it includes two parts. Part one socio-demographic characteristics and part two medical histories. The results: about three quarters of the studied patients had a low total quality of life, there were  statistically significant relation between patients' socio-demographic characteristics and  their total quality of life . Conclusion: Most of studied patients had low quality of life. Recommendations: There is a clear need for periodic training sessions and assessments to improve the quality of life of patients suffering from stroke.
 

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