Activities of daily living and quality of life in persons with muscular dystrophy.
2001 (English)In: Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine, ISSN 1650-1977, E-ISSN 1651-2081, Vol. 33, no 5, p. 206-211Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
The study concerns 77 adults with muscular dystrophy (mean age 49 years) in two counties in Sweden. The purpose was to investigate activities of daily living, quality of life and the relationship between these. Data collection was performed with "the Activity of Daily Living Staircase", "the Self-report Activity of Daily Living" and the Quality of Life Profile. The results indicated that over half of the subjects were dependent on others, chiefly in activities requiring mobility. Muscular dystrophy had mostly negative consequences, and nearly half stated that life would have offered more without it. Few significant diagnosis-related (no gender-related) differences emerged regarding activities of daily living and quality of life. Lower quality of life can only partly be explained by greater disability (r=0.30-0.54). Therefore quality of life as a measurement of rehabilitation outcomes might be based both on physical status, disability and psychosocial factors in terms of positive and negative consequences.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2001. Vol. 33, no 5, p. 206-211
Keywords [en]
Activities of Daily Living/*psychology, Adaptation; Psychological, Adult, Aged, Disability Evaluation, Female, Geography, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Muscular Dystrophies/*psychology, Quality of Life/*psychology, Questionnaires, Self Assessment (Psychology), Sex Factors, Statistics, Sweden
National Category
Nursing Nursing
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-3696DOI: 10.1080/165019701750419590PubMedID: 11585151OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hj-3696DiVA, id: diva2:34516
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