Specific health-related quality of life in Cerebrovascular accident survivors: associated factors
Cleane Rosa Ribeiro da Silva, Cláudia Jeane Lopes Pimenta, Lia Raquel de Carvalho Viana, Gerlania Rodrigues Salviano Ferreira, Thaíse Alves Bezerra, Tatiana Ferreira da Costa, Maria de Lourdes de Farias Pontes, Kátia Neyla de Freitas Macedo Costa, Cleane Rosa Ribeiro da Silva, Cláudia Jeane Lopes Pimenta, Lia Raquel de Carvalho Viana, Gerlania Rodrigues Salviano Ferreira, Thaíse Alves Bezerra, Tatiana Ferreira da Costa, Maria de Lourdes de Farias Pontes, Kátia Neyla de Freitas Macedo Costa
Abstract
Objectives: to identify factors associated with specific health-related quality of life in cerebrovascular accident, or stroke, survivors.
Methods: cross-sectional study, carried out with 160 cerebrovascular accident survivors. Data were collected using the Barthel Index, Cerebrovascular Accident Specific Quality of Life Scale, and semi-structured instruments for sociodemographic and clinical data, analyzed by descriptive and inferential statistics.
Results: health-related quality of life was associated with work activity (p=0.027), physical activity (p=0.007), functional capacity (p=0.001), presence of caregiver (<0.001), motor alteration (p = 0.001) and rehabilitation (p=0.003). The functionally dependent people were 14.61 times more likely to present low health-related quality of life, and those with motor impairment were 3.07 times more likely.
Conclusions: it was evidenced that functional dependence and motor impairment increase the chance of low health-related quality of life in cerebrovascular accident survivors.
Source: PubMed