title: Coping strategies and health-related quality of life after stroke.
abstract: Cerebral stroke causes a significant worsening of health-related quality of life. This review was conducted on studies investigating whether the levels of quality of life were influenced by the coping strategies used by stroke patients. We searched on PubMed and Web of Science databases and screening references of included studies and review articles for additional citations. From initial 389 publications, we included only 6 studies that met search criteria and described the association between coping and quality of life. Results showed that patients who prefer accommodative or active coping strategies had a better quality of life after stroke when compared with patients who adopted assimilative coping.
authors.affiliation: 1 IRCCS Centro Neurolesi "Bonino Pulejo," Italy.
authors.forename: Viviana
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Lo Buono
authors.affiliation: 1 IRCCS Centro Neurolesi "Bonino Pulejo," Italy.
authors.forename: Francesco
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Corallo
authors.affiliation: 1 IRCCS Centro Neurolesi "Bonino Pulejo," Italy.
authors.forename: Placido
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Bramanti
authors.affiliation: 1 IRCCS Centro Neurolesi "Bonino Pulejo," Italy.|2 Department of Biomedical Sciences and Morphological and Functional Imaging, University of Messina, Italy.
authors.forename: Silvia
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Marino
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D006801:Humans; D011788:Quality of Life / Q000523:psychology*; D020521:Stroke / Q000523:psychology*
keywords: coping; disability; quality of life; stroke