Health literacy of people with spinal cord injury: a systematic review.

Study Design: Systematic review.

Objective: To systematically review the evidence on health literacy (HL) of people diagnosed with spinal cord injury (SCI).

Methods: PubMed, Cochrane Library, Web of Science and Embase databases were used to identify studies published from 1974 to 2021.

Factors related to the quality of life of mothers of children with Congenital Zika Virus Syndrome.

Objective: To relate sociodemographic and clinical aspects to the quality of life of mothers of children with Congenital Zika Virus Syndrome.

Method: Cross-sectional analytical study, conducted in a rehabilitation center in Goiânia, central region of Brazil. A sociodemographic and clinical profile questionnaire and the World Health Organization Quality of Life were used.

Correlation between fatigue and quality of life self-reported by adolescents with cerebral palsy.

Objectives: to investigate the correlation between fatigue and quality of life in adolescents with cerebral palsy who are susceptible to more significant fatigue and lower quality of life.

Methods: cross-sectional study conducted with 101 adolescents with cerebral palsy. Instruments such as the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory and Gross Motor Function Classification System were used, and Kolmogorov-Smirnov, Mann-Whitney, and Spearman tests were applied.

Quality of life of adolescents with cerebral palsy: agreement between self-report and caregiver's report.

Method: to assess the quality of life (QOL) of adolescents with cerebral palsy (CP) by self-report and by the caregiver's report, and to analyze the agreement between these reports.cross-sectional study conducted with 101 adolescents with CP and 101 caregivers. Both answered the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory (PedsQL), module 4.

[Quality of life of family caregivers of adults with spinal cord injury: a systematic review].

The scope of this study was to analyze the quality of life of family caregivers of adults with spinal cord injury. Two researchers conducted a systematic review independently, based on articles published between 2000 to 2014, using the key words quality of life and caregivers or family and spinal cord, in Portuguese, English and Spanish. The search was conducted in the Virtual Health Library (BVS) and the United States National Library of Medicine (PubMED) databases.

Cerebral Palsy: how the child's age and severity of impairment affect the mother's stress and coping strategies.

The aim of the study was to comprehend how the age group and the severity of the motor impairment of children with cerebral palsy modify the mothers' experiences of stress and to understand the coping strategies they use. A qualitative approach was used, with the method framed on Grounded Theory Analysis. Nineteen mothers of children and adolescents with different degrees of motor impairment participated in individual semi-structured interviews.

Relation between quality of life of mothers of children with cerebral palsy and the children's motor functioning, after ten months of rehabilitation.

This study aims to analyze the quality of life of mothers of children with cerebral palsy, correlated with the evolution of their children's gross motor function after ten months of rehabilitation. An observational, longitudinal study was carried out in Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil, involving 100 mothers and children with cerebral palsy. The children's motor function was evaluated using the Gross Motor Function Measure (GMFM) and the mothers' quality of life using the Medical Outcomes Study 36-item Short Form Health Survey (SF-36).