Deans' stroke musings: Factors associated with quality of life early after ischemic stroke: The role of resilience

Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain! trillions and trillions of neurons that DIE each day because there are NO effective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 523 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.

What this blog is for:

My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Tuesday, August 20, 2019

Factors associated with quality of life early after ischemic stroke: The role of resilience

Resilience should never be necessary. If necessary, your doctor has completely failed you in getting to 100% recovery.

Factors associated with quality of life early after ischemic stroke: The role of resilience

Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation , Volume 26(5) , Pgs. 335-341.

NARIC Accession Number: J81269. What's this?
ISSN: 1074-9357.
Author(s): Liu, Zhihui; Zhou, Xuan; Zhang, Wei; Zhou, Lanshu.
Publication Year: 2019.
Number of Pages: 7.
Abstract: Study estimated the prevalence and association of resilience with quality of life (QOL) among patients at hospitalization and whether the association was independent of physical function, anxiety, depression, and other population characteristics. A cross-sectional study at a tertiary hospital included 215 individuals. The Chinese version of the Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale was used to evaluate resilience. Stroke Scale Quality of life was used to measure QOL. Other validated questionnaires were used to assess physical function (Functional Independency Measure), and anxiety and depression (Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale). Hierarchical regression analysis was applied to determine the association between psychological factors and QOL. Multiple linear regression was also used to examine whether resilience independently affects QOL. The mean score of the 215 participants’ resilience was 62.36. Resilience, anxiety, and depression were separately significantly associated with QOL. Resilience was negatively associated with anxiety and depression. Subjects with high scores of resilience showed a higher QOL at patients’ hospitalization, independent of physical function, anxiety, depression, disease-related characteristics, and sociodemographic characteristics. In this study, resilience was found to be an independent predictor of QOL beyond anxiety and depression in patients with ischemic stroke. Interventions aimed at improving resilience at acute hospitalization might be a worthwhile addition to improve QOL early after stroke.
Descriptor Terms: ADJUSTMENT, ANXIETY DISORDERS, DEPRESSION, OUTCOMES, PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS, QUALITY OF LIFE, STROKE.

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Citation: Liu, Zhihui, Zhou, Xuan, Zhang, Wei, Zhou, Lanshu. (2019). Factors associated with quality of life early after ischemic stroke: The role of resilience. Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation , 26(5), Pgs. 335-341. Retrieved 8/20/2019, from REHABDATA database.