PSYC 3170 Lecture Notes - Assistive Technology, Prosthesis, The Features
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Quality of life: for many years, quality of life was measured as the length of survival and signs of presence of disease, with no consideration of psychological consequences of the illness. The most important impetus for evaluating the quality of life is the psychological distress that comes with a chronic illness and stress can exacerbate the symptoms, making them worse. Quality of life has several components, specifically physical & social functioning, psychological status, and disease or treatment related symptoms. In chronically ill patients, quality of life is assessed on how much the disease and its treatment interferes with the activities of daily life, such as sleeping, eating, going to work and engaging in social and recreational activities. For more advanced diseases, assessments include whether person is able to bathe, use the toilet, eat without assistance, be mobile and be continent. Sf-6 survey used to evaluate quality of life.
