Quality of Life in Adult Neurological Patients

Associação de Assistência a Criança Deficiente

Status: Completed

Conditions: Poliomyelitis; Acquired Brain Injury; Spinal Cord Injury

Treatments: Other: Physical therapy, occupational therapy, psycotherapy, medical consultations

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01573936

Yoshihara_AACD2011

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purposes of this study were to evaluate the influence of an interdisciplinary rehabilitation program in the improvement of the health-related quality of life among adult neurological patients and to identify the sociodemographic and clinical associated characteristics. Subjects with spinal cord injury, acquired brain injury and poliomyelitis survivors participated in the study. All participants underwent a rehabilitation program (RP) from January 2008 through July 2010, which consists of 40-minutes of many therapies for 1-2 days a week. The WHOQOL-BREF was applied at the initial and discharge assessments.

Enrollment: 70 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 19 to 74 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• diagnosed with spinal cord injury, acquired brain injury and poliomyelitis survivors
• at least 18 years old
• consented to participate in the study

Exclusion criteria

• cognitive problems to understand and to respond the assessment instrument, according to medical files description and interviewer previous judgment

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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70 participants in 1 patient group

rehabilitation program

Experimental group

Description:

Rehabilitation program from January 2008 through July 2010, which consists of 40-minutes of many therapies for 1-2 days a week

Treatment:

Other: Physical therapy, occupational therapy, psycotherapy, medical consultations