Objective: The number of people with stroke increases
worldwide. The stroke survivors live with disabilities and those influence
their quality of life (QOL). This study was aimed to investigate the
association between clinical characteristics and QOL of the older people with stroke at discharge
from the hospital. Methods: This is a cross-sectional study. The participants
were 113 stroke survivors aged 60 years and older admitted to the stroke unit.
Quality of life was the study’s outcome which measured by using the abbreviated
version of the World Health
Organization Quality of Life (WHOQOL-BREF). Primary clinical characteristics
were measured by the National Institute of Health StrokeScale (NIHSS), Barthel Index (BI), and Modified
Rankin Scale (mRS). Potential confounding
factors were age, sex, education levels, marital status, current occupation, and comorbidity (hypertension,
diabetes mellitus, dyslipidemia, and
heart disease). Multiple linear regression was used for data analysis.Results: The main effects of clinical outcomes were high BI Score that had a significant
difference association with QOL (β = 0.312,
95%CI =0.042, 0.296,
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