LILACS – Literatura Latinoamericana y del Caribe de Ciencias de la Salud

Health related quality of life in Turkish polio survivors: impact of post-polio on the health related quality of life in terms of functional status, severity of pain, fatigue, and social, and emotional functioning

Garip, Yesim; Eser, Filiz; Bodur, Hatice; Baskan, Bedriye; Sivas, Filiz; Yilmaz, Ozlem.

Rev. bras. reumatol; 57 (1), 2017

ABSTRACT Objective: To determine the impact of postpolio-syndrome on quality of life in polio survivors. Methods: Forty polio survivors were included in the study. Twenty-one patients fulfilling the Halstead's postpolio-syndrome criteria participated in postpolio-syndrome group. The remaining nineteen ...

Actividades Cotidianas/psicología, Depresión/epidemiología, Depresión/psicología, Evaluación de la Discapacidad, Fatiga/epidemiología, Fatiga/psicología, Estudios de Seguimiento, Encuestas Epidemiológicas, Relaciones Interpersonales, Persona de Mediana Edad, Dolor/epidemiología, Dolor/psicología, Poliomielitis/epidemiología, Poliomielitis/fisiopatología, Poliomielitis/psicología, Poliomielitis/rehabilitación, Síndrome Pospoliomielitis/epidemiología, Síndrome Pospoliomielitis/fisiopatología, Síndrome Pospoliomielitis/psicología, Síndrome Pospoliomielitis/rehabilitación, Calidad de Vida, Índice de Severidad de la Enfermedad, Conducta Social, Sobrevivientes/psicología, Turquía/epidemiología

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Currents issues in cardiorespiratory care of patients with post-polio syndrome

ABSTRACT Post-polio syndrome (PPS) is a condition that affects polio survivors years after recovery from an initial acute attack of the poliomyelitis virus. Most often, polio survivors experience a gradual new weakening in muscles that were previously affected by the polio infection. The actual incidence...