Quality of Life and its Determinants after Stroke in Elderly Patients | ||
| The Egyptian Journal of Geriatrics and Gerontology | ||
| Article 6, Volume 2, Issue 2, October 2015, Pages 33-37 PDF (970.93 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/ejgg.2015.5328 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Sara Sayed1; Ayman El-Sudany2; Heba Kamel1; Manar Adel1; Sarah Hamza1 | ||
| 1Geriatric Medicine& Gerontology department, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt. | ||
| 2Neurology department, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt. | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Aim: This study was conducted to assess the impact of st roke on qual i ty of l i fe of elderly and to identi fy the determinant of QoL in geriatric stroke patients. Methods: A cross sectional study was per formed on 100 Pat ients wi th history of cerebrovascular st roke at least three months ago. Al l participants were subjected to complete medical history taking, cogni tive assessment: using Mini -Cog and assessment of qual i ty of l i fe by the short form 36 heal th survey (SF-36) in i ts Arabic version Results: The cur rent study revealed that QoL of studied population was low wi th median score 34, and the most affected QoL domains were role l imi tation due to physical heal th (RLPH) and th at QoL was negatively cor related to age, duration, number of comorbidi ties and depression. Conclusions: HRQOL of elderly st roke patients is low, physical and emotional heal th is the mostly af fected. Most determinant factor for QoL domains and sub domains was age. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Qual i ty of Li fe; stroke; Elderl y | ||
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