Cerebrovascular Disease: Quality of Life (CODE: QoL)
The goal of this observational study is to learn about quality of life, stress and caregiver burden in patients with stroke and their caregivers. The main question is: • to discover the factors associated with quality of life and stress in patient-caregiver dyads. Participants will be asked to fill out questionnaires and agree to provide a hair sample (in order to measure stress hormones in hair) and consent to use of their routine clinical and laboratory data. Researchers will compare a group of participants without stroke to establish a comparable baseline.
• over 18 years old
• No previous stroke OR previous stroke \>3 years ago
• No significant disability (maximum mRS 1)
• ambulatory patients at the University Hospital of Zurich (USZ), Dept. of Neurology
• Patients' AND caregiver's ability to give informed consent
• Patients' AND close relative's / caregiver's willingness to participate
• over 18 years old
• Patients diagnosed with either transient ischemic attack, ischemic stroke or intracerebral hemorrhage and their caregivers
• Caregiver of a patient as described above, age over 18 years
• Hospitalized or ambulatory patients at the University Hospital of Zurich (USZ) included within 28 days from event.
• Patients' AND caregiver's ability to give informed consent
• Patients' AND caregiver's willingness to participate