1. The relationship between health-related quality of life, perceived social support, and social network size in African Americans with aphasia: a cross-sectional study
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Patrick Finn, Henry N Young, Cynthia O. Vail, Gloriajean Wallace, and Davetrina Seles Gadson
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Adult ,030506 rehabilitation ,Cross-sectional study ,Social Networking ,03 medical and health sciences ,Social support ,0302 clinical medicine ,Quality of life (healthcare) ,Aphasia ,medicine ,Humans ,Stroke ,Community and Home Care ,Social network ,business.industry ,Rehabilitation ,Case-control study ,Social Support ,social sciences ,medicine.disease ,Moderation ,humanities ,Black or African American ,Cross-Sectional Studies ,Case-Control Studies ,Quality of Life ,Neurology (clinical) ,medicine.symptom ,0305 other medical science ,Psychology ,business ,human activities ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery ,Clinical psychology - Abstract
Stroke significantly impairs health-related quality of life (HRQL). Stroke survivors with aphasia (SWA) experience lower HRQL than stroke survivors without aphasia (SSA) as a result of poorer communication and social functioning. The extent to which aphasia influences HRQL in African-Americans and the components of social functioning that are most important to HRQL warrants further exploration.There were two main objectives of this paper. The first was to survey HRQL domains of communication, physical, mental/emotional, role, and social functioning in African American SWA and SSA. The second was to examine if social support and social network predicted HRQL in SWA.A total of 39 African American adults (62.4 ± 11.10) participated in this descriptive cross-sectional case control study. Patient-reported outcome measures were used to assess HRQL, perceived social support, and social network in SWA, SSA, and normal-aging healthy controls (NAH). Data analysis included an ANOVA and moderator regression to determine if social support or social network predicted HRQL in SWA.SWA reported a significantly lower overall HRQL (p =
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- 2021