2.4.2 Stroke Specific Quality of Life Scale (SSQOL)
This is a stroke-specific quality of life scale developed by Williams, Weinberger, Clark, Haris and Biller in 1999. SSQOL consists of 49 items and 12 subdimensions ( mobility, vitality, upper extremity functioning, work / productivity, mood, self-care, social roles, family roles, language (L), vision (V), thinking (T) and personality (P)) which are rated using 5-point Likert type scale (1 = I totally agree, 2 = I partially agree, 3 = I neither agree nor disagree, 4 =I partially disagree, 5 = I disagree) taking the previous week for consideration21. The scale was adapted into Turkish by Khorshid27 in the year 2009. In its Turkish version in the factor analysis, different from the original version, 49 items were composed of 8 subdimensions (Activities, Social And Family Roles, Language, Vision, Vitality, Mood, Personality, Thinking)27. In the evaluation, total score, and score of each subdimension are obtained. The higher the score, the better is the quality of life of stroke patients. The total Cronbach’s alpha value of the Turkish version of the scale was 0.97. In our study, Cronbach’s alpha values for the subdimensions , ​​ranged between 0.73 (Personality / Thinking) and 0.96 (Energy).