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Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học General Psychiatry cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài: The association of psychological stress and health related quality of life among patients with stroke and hypertension in Gaza Strip. | Annals of General Psychiatry BioMed Central Primary research Open Access The association of psychological stress and health related quality of life among patients with stroke and hypertension in Gaza Strip BT Baune 1 2 and Y Aljeesh3 Address Department of Psychiatry School of Medicine James Cook University Australia 2Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy University of Munster Germany and 3Islamic University Gaza Palestinian Authority Email BT Baune - bbaune@uni-muenster.de Y Aljeesh - yjeesh@mail.iugaza.edu Corresponding author Published 19 May 2006 Received 20 October 2005 Annals of General Psychiatry 2006 5 6 doi 10.1186 1744-859X-5-6 Accepted 19 May 2006 This article is available from http www.annals-general-psychiatry.cOm content 5 1 6 2006 Baune and Aljeesh licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http creativecommons.org licenses by 2.0 which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background The study was performed to investigate the association of psychological stress and quality of life QOL among patients with the cardiovascular disease CVD of hypertension plus stroke or hypertension only. Methods The WHOQOL-BREF questionnaire was applied to 112 hypertensive patients with hypertension plus stroke and 224 hypertensive patients without stroke. Psychological stress was assessed with SCL-90. Means scale scores were compared using student-t-test and predictors of QOL were calculated with covariance analysis. Results Patients with stroke had a significant lower QOL than patients without stroke and a significantly higher level of stress p 0.01 . In analyses of covariance psychological stress was significantly correlated to all domains of QOL among non-stroke patients. The same psychological and sociodemographic factors showed little impact on the stroke patients in these multivariable .
