Specijalna Edukacija i Rehabilitacija (Jan 2018)
The relation between communication quality and life satisfaction in persons with aphasia
Abstract
Self-perception of one's own communicative ability - observed in the context of providing socialization/activity, self-confidence in communication and achievement of individual roles - and quality of life were examined by appropriate instruments (Quality of Communication Life Scale - ASHA QCL and Quality of Life Inventory - QOLI). The sample consisted of 60 persons with aphasia resulting from vascular insults, in a period between two and twenty months after a stroke. As a group, participants with aphasia showed a relatively low evaluation of their own communicative abilities regardless of the domain of manifestation, as well as the type of aphasia. The level of evaluation of one's own quality of life proved to be in a moderate and positive relation with the quality of communication life, suggesting that the quality of communication could be a constant, significant, though not exclusive, variable that defines the quality of life in this population. The severity of aphasia emerged as an important factor of self-perception of the quality of communication life, but also of the overall life satisfaction, which was not shown for the type of language disorder observed by fluency.
