Quality of Life of Men withPosttraumatic Spinal Cord Injury

Czech version

Authors: T. Šrámková ¹; E. Dragomirecká ²; P. Wendsche P.cpinová ^{1 1}; M. Sutorý ¹
Authors‘ workplace: Spinální jednotka Úrazové nemocnice, Brno-Ponávka, ředitel MUDr. P. Zelníček 2Psychiatrické centrum Praha, ředitel prof. MUDr. C. Höschl, DrSc. ¹
Published in: Prakt. Lék. 1999; (5): 263-268
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Overview

In the professional literature of many medical disciplines in recent years with increasingfrequency the quality of life is discussed as the objective of therapeutic intervention. The qualityof life of men with a posttraumatic transverse spinal lesion was not investigated in this countryso far. Investigation how a man with a posttraumatic transverse spinal lesion perceives hisposition in the world, under his living conditions and in relation to his objectives, expectations,lifestyle and interests provides information on the quality of life of thus affected men. Theauthors examined 32 men - paraplegics, using a subjective self-assessing questionnaire SQU-ALA - QOL. The control group comprised 167 men. The authors found that while in the repliesof respondents on the importance of different spheres of life there are no statistically significantdifferences between the mean score of paraplegics and controls, in the evaluation of satisfactionthe score of paraplegics was significantly lower as compared with the control group in thecategories of health - physical self-sufficiency - sex - politics - work. From the results ensuesthat for improvement of the life of men with posttraumatic spinal lesions collaboration ofmedical and non-medical components is essential.

Key words:
quality of life - SQUALA questionnaire - paraplegic quality of life.

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