Level of Quality of Life among Post Stroke Patients; A Cross Sectional Survey
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Background:
Stroke remains one of the leading causes of disability worldwide, with significant impacts on the quality of life (QoL) of survivors. This cross-sectional survey aims to evaluate the level of QoL among post-stroke patients and explore the associations with socio-demographic and clinical variables.
Objective:
The objectives of this study was to determine the level of quality of life among post-stroke patients. And to check the survival rate that either the stroke patients taking the therapeutic interventions or not, having a good independency or bad independency.
Methodology:
Cross-sectional study was conducted on 100 stroke patients having the age of less than 60. For the collection of data stroke specific quality of life scale (SS-QOL) was used to properly assess the quality of life among the selected population. Sample size was collected by using the convenient sampling technique. Written consent was taken from the respective hospitals
Results:
Results analyzed by SPSS version 25. The mean age of the patients was 50.28, ± 8.196 the minimum age was 32 years and maximum were 60 years. Out of 100 patients maximum were male 64% and female were 36%. There were 14% patients from upper-class level, 48% patients with a middle-class and 38% patients from a lower-class level. The overall quality of life among post stroke patient were poor with 52%, worst with 5%, fair with 39% and good with 4%.
Conclusion:
In this study it was observed that stroke has a negative impact on almost all the domains of quality of life. Majority of the patients were living with poor quality of life few of them were in good quality of life. On whole the quality of life is totally hampered and the patients were totally dependent.
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