Title Persirgusiųjų galvos smegenų insultu gyvenimo kokybės priklausomybė nuo socialinių ir demografinių veiksnių /
Another Title The Relationship of quality of life with social and demographic factors among stroke survivors.
Authors Rastenytė, Daiva ; Krančiukaitė-Butylkinienė, Daina ; Bacevičienė, Miglė ; Lukšienė, Dalia ; Krančiukas, Ramutis
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Is Part of Medicina.. Kaunas : Lietuvos sveikatos mokslų universitetas. 2010, t. 46, Nr. 12, p. 851-858.. ISSN 1010-660X
Keywords [eng] Stroke ; Quality of life
Abstract [eng] The aim of the study was to determine the associations between the quality of life and social and demographic factors in stroke survivors and control group. Material and methods. The case group consisted of 508 inhabitants of Kaunas city who were aged 25–84 years and had survived a stroke. The control group included 508 age- and sex-matched inhabitants of Kaunas city randomly selected from the stroke-free population. The SF-12 questionnaire was used in the study. Quality of life in the physical and mental health domains with respect to social and demographic factors was analyzed. Results. A signifi cant inverse correlation was found between the evaluation of physical health and age in both the stroke survivors and controls (r=–0.34, P<0.05, and r=–0.64, P<0.05, respectively). The comparison of the evaluation of physical health between men and women showed that only in the control group, men demonstrated signifi cantly better physical health than women (P=0.0005), while no statistically signifi cant difference in this respect was found comparing male and female stroke survivors. Stroke survivors of Lithuanian nationality reported better physical health as compared to individuals of other nationalities (P=0.008). Both the controls (P=0.01) and stroke survivors (P=0.008) who were not living alone scored higher on the physical health domain than their counterparts living alone. Employed subjects – both the controls and stroke survivors – presented better evaluations of their physical health (P=0.005 in both the groups). Conclusions. Quality of life in the physical health domain worsened with age both in the stroke survivors and controls. [...].
Published Kaunas : Lietuvos sveikatos mokslų universitetas
Type Journal article
Language Lithuanian
Publication date 2010