Are we looking to stroke and quality of life?

Abstract

used in epidemiological studies as an end point for social indicators, positive psychology, and mainly for the humanization of medicine.2 From the 1990s, some authors observed that in the concept of the term of QoL were two important aspects to be added–the subjectivity (the perception of all aspects of QoL) and the multidimensionality (recognition that the construct is composed of different dimensions).3,4 In view of the different concepts in the literature, a group of World Health Organization (WHO) researchers decided to cover all and defined it as the “perception of the individual about his position in life, in the context of the culture and system of values in which he lives, and in relation to his goals, expectations, standards and concerns “.5 This is the latest definition.