Subjective well-being one year after stroke
Torgeir Bruun Wyller, Unni Sveen, Karen Margrethe Sødring, Anne Marie Pettersen, Erik Bautz-Holter
Bok Engelsk 1997
| Utgitt | 1997
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| Omfang | 7 s.
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| Opplysninger | Objective: To compare the subjective well-being of stroke patients with that of a reference group, and to study its relationship to patient characterists. Design: Cross-sectional study. Setting: Interviews performed in the respondents`homes, tests performed at the outpatient clinic. Subjects: Sixty patients one year after stroke (median age 74 years, interquartile range (IQR) 68-80), and 419 reference individuals (median age 75 years, IQR 71-80). Measures: Subjective well-being assessed with the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-20). Explantory variables were demograpich and medical characteristics of the individuals and scores on validated tests: Barthel Index, Frenchay Activities Index (FAI), Sødring Motor Evaluation of Stroke Patinets, Assessment of Cerebral Stroke and other Brain Damage, and Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE). Results: A significantly higher propotion of the stroke patients than of the controls rated their subjective well-being as low, also after adjustment for age and gender (adjusted odds ratio 20.1, 95% confidence interval 9.6-42.0 by logistic regression). In bivariate analysis, leg and arm motor impairment, visuospatial impairment, apraxia, aphasia, low Barthel score, low FAI score, low MMSE score, and institutionalization were highly significant predictors of low subjective well-being (p=0.3) and upper extremity moter score (p<0.01) fitted the data well, and explained 48% of the variance in GHQ. Conclusion: Subjective well-being is decreased one year after stroke, and this is maintly attributed to arm motor impairments.
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