Quality of life persons with spasticity

Abstract

Quality of life is in nature subjective concept which doesn't have universal meaning and only individual can define personal meaning of quality of life. There are many factors which can violate quality of life and one of these factors is certainly enduring consequence of chronically diseases and conditions. One of these conditions is spasticity. Strong spasticity has influence on many aspects of rehabilitation treatment and hamper independence in many situations of everyday life. Spasticity is changing life of person but we should accentuate that every person has ability of her own experience of the same conditions of life are different for every person. The aim of our work was to appointed to what extent spasticity has influence on quality of life diseased person through the ability of performing everyday activity. Research is making on a sample of 30 patients which were stationed at Clinic for rehabilitation 'Dr Miroslav Zotovic' in Belgrade. For research was used scale of appraisal for life habits (short version) first part that is applicable to everyday activity. Analyzing received results we can conclude that persons with spasticity perform/work more hamper in every area with special accent on ability of movement (mobility) and area of responsibility and the least difficulty they show in communication. On the quality of life has influence diagnosis and time of disease birth.

Samo pojedinac može da odredi lično značenje kvaliteta života, jer je to subjektivan pojam koji nema univerzalno značenje. Postoje mnogobrojni faktori koji mogu da naruše kvalitet života, a jedan od tih faktora su svakako dugotrajne posledice hroničnih bolesti i stanja. Jedno takvo stanje je spasticitet. Jak spasticitet utiče na mnoge aspekte rehabilitacionog tretmana i otežava nezavisnost u brojnim situacijama svakodnevnog života. Spasticitet menja život osobe, ali svaka osoba ima sopstveni doživljaj jednog istog stanja ili bolesti, jer su okolnosti i uslovi života različiti za svakog pojedinca. Cilj rada je da utvrdimo u kojoj meri spasticitet utiče na kvalitet života obolele osobe, kroz sposobnost obavljanja svakodnevnih aktivnosti. Istraživanje je sprovedeno na uzorku od 30 pacijenata, koji su u trenutku istraživanja bili stacionirani na Klinici za rehabilitaciju 'Dr Miroslav Zotović' u Beogradu. Za potrebe istraživanja korišćena je Skala za procenu životnih navika (Fougeyrollas P, et all., 1999), deo koji se odnosi na svakodnevne aktivnosti. Analizom dobijenih rezultata zaključujemo da osobe sa spasticitetom otežano funkcionišu u svim ispitanim oblastima, sa posebnim naglaskom na sposobnost kretanja (pokretljivost) i oblast odgovornosti, a najmanje potoškoća pokazuju u komunikaciji. Na kvalitet njihovog života utiče dijagnoza i vreme proteklo od nastanka bolesti.