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Objective: To find out the life experiences of a patient after an ischemic stroke (IS) at a young age and what effect this disease had on the quality of her further life (Health Related Quality of Life, HRQoL). Methodology: The pilot study had the characteristics of an interpretative phenomenological case study. Data collection was carried out through an in-depth semi-structured interview focusing on the areas of the investigated phenomenon. The interview transcript was analysed based on interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA). Participant: 45-year-old woman, two years after IS, self-employed bar operator before the illness. As a result of the lingering consequences after IS (fatigue, expressive phatic disorder, slight right arm paresis and depression), she is on disability pension. Results: A total of 8 themes were identified that describe the patient's experience with the consequences of IS. We characterized these themes as: It was beyond me – timely and adequate provision of health care; I was nobody – the consequences of severe aphasia; I was lively, cheerful, wild – loss of integrity; Fatigue – change in daily rhythm; I was everywhere, now always at home – social isolation; I have already learned to walk and talk – the benefit of intensive RHB and speech therapy care; Successes in small steps – a gradual return to normal life; Partner and family as help, support and motivation – a new dimension of relationships. Conclusion: Despite the significant improvement of the clinical condition after IS, its impact on the quality of life can be very significant. In the case of the referred young patient, her recovery took many months to years despite intensive rehabilitation, speech therapy and psychological support. Fatigue, depressive mood, abulia, social isolation persist for a long time. Adequate care for these patients requires a highly individualized approach by multidisciplinary teams. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Introduction: Ischemic stroke (IS) may have impact on long-term health-related quality of life (HRQoL) even in the patients with good clinical outcome, and tools mostly used for the assessment of outcome may underestimate or not reflect all relevant sequels after IS. We aimed to analyze HRQoL in the patients with excellent outcome after IS., Methods: We analyzed consecutive IS patients enrolled in the prospective FRAILTY study (ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT04839887) with excellent 3-month clinical outcome (score 0-1 in modified Rankin Scale [mRS]). Stroke Impact Scale (SIS) version 3.0 and Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) were used for the HRQoL, anxiety, and depression assessments, and subgroup comparisons were performed according to NIHSS score (0, ≥1), age (50<, ≥50 years), and sex., Results: In total, 158 patients (55.7% men, mean age 60.3 ± 13.4 years) were analyzed, and 72.2% of them had score 0 in mRS. The overall lowest median scores were found in the SIS domain "emotion," "strength," and "participation." Patients with NIHSS ≥1 had lower scores in all SIS domains except "emotions" and "mobility." Patients ≥50 years had lower score in "mobility" (p = 0.004) and females in domain of "social participation" (p = 0.044). No differences were found among all subgroups in HADS anxiety and depression. Age, NIHSS score, and depression were found negative predictors for the physical domains of HRQoL., Discussion/conclusions: Despite excellent 3-month clinical outcome after IS, patients had affected substantially their HRQoL, especially those with NIHSS ≥1. Patients ≥50 years had more affected "mobility" and females "social participation.", (© 2024 S. Karger AG, Basel.)

Introduction: Dignity is one of the most important values sensitively perceived by patients in nursing care. Older patients have been identified as having a high risk of losing their dignity in institutional care. To promote optimum nursing care, a deeper insight into the problem of older patients' dignity is needed., Aim: The aim was to identify, analyse and synthesise the qualitative evidence of dignity views and factors affecting it from the nurses' and older patients' perspective in the context of nursing care and to compare synthesised finding from the both perspective., Methods: A literature review of qualitative evidence was chosen as a study design. The ENTREQ statement was implemented to enhance transparency. The CASP - Qualitative checklist and the thematic synthesis for synthesised findings were used. The electronic databases Academic Search Complete, CINAHL, Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition, MEDLINE and PROQUEST were used to gather information for qualitative studies., Results: A total of 306 papers were retrieved. Fourteen qualitative studies met the inclusion criteria and were included in the review after methodological quality assessment using CASP. Four main themes of dignity from nurses' perspective were synthesised: seeing the patient as a unique person, communication and privacy, involving the patient, and working culture and environment . From the patients' perspective, six main themes were synthesised: autonomy and control, privacy, relationships, care and comfort, communication and identity. The comparison shows that the key difference is that older patients highlighted the theme relationships and nurses underlined the theme working culture and environment., Conclusion: The model structures of the older patients' dignity from both the nurses' and patients' perspectives support the idea of a multidimensional structure of human dignity. The resulting model might be used in a nursing self-reflection, in the management of the institutions providing all-day care for the older people and in the education and practice.