Quality of life of individuals after stroke: an integrative review

• Autor(a) principal: Conceição, Marcos Linco
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Conceição, Marcelo Linco, Pimentel, Paulo Henrique Ramos
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Research, Society and Development
• Texto Completo: https://rsdjournal.org/index.php/rsd/article/view/22746
• topic: Physiotherapy; Stroke; Quality of life.; Fisioterapia; AVC; Calidad de vida.; Fisioterapia; AVC; Qualidade de vida.

Introduction: Stroke is considered one of the public health issues worldwide, becoming the second most common cause in mortality in countries, being one of the main causes of temporary or permanent physical disability. Objective: To investigate in the existing literature the repercussions of stroke in the quality of life of individuals. Methodology: This is an integrative review of the literature, including the databases of LILACS and MEDLINE, PUBMED and PeDro, Acervo+ Index Base e SciELO, in which the final sample to be compose this integrative review, eleven articles were selected based on the inclusion and exclusion criteria. Results: It was identified that quality of life is the main element affected due to stroke, according to the SF-36, the physical and emotional aspects stand out, as being the most affected and the ones that most generate complications in the quality of life of patients diagnosed with stroke. Final considerations: The present study made it possible to analyse the quality of life of individuals and the main elements affected due to the various problems obtained as a result the stroke on the quality of life of affected individuals, resulting in complications in aspects related to physical and emotional health mainly.