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Construction and Validation of the 17-Item Stroke-Specific Quality of Life Scale (SS-QOL-17): A Comprehensive Short Scale to Assess the Functional, Psychosocial, and Therapeutic Factors of QOL among Stroke Survivors

(1) Background: The exiting stroke-specific quality of life (SS-QOL) measure scales are limited by their excessive length, inconsistent validity, and restricted breadths of assessment. The objectives of this study were to construct and validate a comprehensive short SS-QOL scale to assess stroke-rel...

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Autores principales: Sakr, Fouad, Dabbous, Mariam, Akel, Marwan, Salameh, Pascale, Hosseini, Hassan
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Publicado: MDPI 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9741031/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36497746
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192315668
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author Sakr, Fouad
Dabbous, Mariam
Akel, Marwan
Salameh, Pascale
Hosseini, Hassan
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Dabbous, Mariam
Akel, Marwan
Salameh, Pascale
Hosseini, Hassan
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description (1) Background: The exiting stroke-specific quality of life (SS-QOL) measure scales are limited by their excessive length, inconsistent validity, and restricted breadths of assessment. The objectives of this study were to construct and validate a comprehensive short SS-QOL scale to assess stroke-related outcomes and QOL and determine the socioeconomic, sociodemographic, and pharmacotherapeutic predictors of QOL among stroke survivors. (2) Methods: The novel 17-item SS-QOL scale (SS-QOL-17) was constructed with the aim of providing a well-balanced measuring tool to depict QOL widely while ensuring the simplicity of administration. (3) Results: The SS-QOL-17 structure was validated over a solution of three factors with a Kaiser–Meyer–Olkin measure of sampling adequacy = 0.894 and a significant Bartlett’s test of sphericity (p < 0.001). The Cronbach’s alpha of the SS-QOL-17 was 0.903. Better QOL was correlated to financial wellbeing (beta 0.093, p < 0.001), and medication adherence (beta 0.305, p = 0.004), whereas reduced QOL was correlated to older age (beta −0.117, p = 0.014), illiteracy (beta −6.428, p < 0.001), unemployment (beta −6.170, p < 0.001), and higher amount of prescribed medication (beta −1.148, p < 0.001). (4) Conclusions: The SS-QOL-17 is a valid and reliable tool with promising psychometric properties. It is useful in clinical practice and research settings to evaluate the post-stroke therapeutic and rehabilitation outcomes.
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spelling pubmed-97410312022-12-11 Construction and Validation of the 17-Item Stroke-Specific Quality of Life Scale (SS-QOL-17): A Comprehensive Short Scale to Assess the Functional, Psychosocial, and Therapeutic Factors of QOL among Stroke Survivors Sakr, Fouad Dabbous, Mariam Akel, Marwan Salameh, Pascale Hosseini, Hassan Int J Environ Res Public Health Article (1) Background: The exiting stroke-specific quality of life (SS-QOL) measure scales are limited by their excessive length, inconsistent validity, and restricted breadths of assessment. The objectives of this study were to construct and validate a comprehensive short SS-QOL scale to assess stroke-related outcomes and QOL and determine the socioeconomic, sociodemographic, and pharmacotherapeutic predictors of QOL among stroke survivors. (2) Methods: The novel 17-item SS-QOL scale (SS-QOL-17) was constructed with the aim of providing a well-balanced measuring tool to depict QOL widely while ensuring the simplicity of administration. (3) Results: The SS-QOL-17 structure was validated over a solution of three factors with a Kaiser–Meyer–Olkin measure of sampling adequacy = 0.894 and a significant Bartlett’s test of sphericity (p < 0.001). The Cronbach’s alpha of the SS-QOL-17 was 0.903. Better QOL was correlated to financial wellbeing (beta 0.093, p < 0.001), and medication adherence (beta 0.305, p = 0.004), whereas reduced QOL was correlated to older age (beta −0.117, p = 0.014), illiteracy (beta −6.428, p < 0.001), unemployment (beta −6.170, p < 0.001), and higher amount of prescribed medication (beta −1.148, p < 0.001). (4) Conclusions: The SS-QOL-17 is a valid and reliable tool with promising psychometric properties. It is useful in clinical practice and research settings to evaluate the post-stroke therapeutic and rehabilitation outcomes. MDPI 2022-11-25 /pmc/articles/PMC9741031/ /pubmed/36497746 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192315668 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Construction and Validation of the 17-Item Stroke-Specific Quality of Life Scale (SS-QOL-17): A Comprehensive Short Scale to Assess the Functional, Psychosocial, and Therapeutic Factors of QOL among Stroke Survivors
title Construction and Validation of the 17-Item Stroke-Specific Quality of Life Scale (SS-QOL-17): A Comprehensive Short Scale to Assess the Functional, Psychosocial, and Therapeutic Factors of QOL among Stroke Survivors
title_full Construction and Validation of the 17-Item Stroke-Specific Quality of Life Scale (SS-QOL-17): A Comprehensive Short Scale to Assess the Functional, Psychosocial, and Therapeutic Factors of QOL among Stroke Survivors
title_fullStr Construction and Validation of the 17-Item Stroke-Specific Quality of Life Scale (SS-QOL-17): A Comprehensive Short Scale to Assess the Functional, Psychosocial, and Therapeutic Factors of QOL among Stroke Survivors
title_full_unstemmed Construction and Validation of the 17-Item Stroke-Specific Quality of Life Scale (SS-QOL-17): A Comprehensive Short Scale to Assess the Functional, Psychosocial, and Therapeutic Factors of QOL among Stroke Survivors
title_short Construction and Validation of the 17-Item Stroke-Specific Quality of Life Scale (SS-QOL-17): A Comprehensive Short Scale to Assess the Functional, Psychosocial, and Therapeutic Factors of QOL among Stroke Survivors
title_sort construction and validation of the 17-item stroke-specific quality of life scale (ss-qol-17): a comprehensive short scale to assess the functional, psychosocial, and therapeutic factors of qol among stroke survivors
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9741031/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36497746
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192315668
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