Abstract: Objective To evaluate the quality of life(QOL) of stroke patients at acute phase, and study the dependability of QOL with activities of daily living(ADL) and other influencing factors. Methods 47 patients with acute stroke were selected in this study, evaluating their ADL, QOL with the Barthel index and the Short Form-36(SF-36), compared their QOL scores with that of ordinary Chinese norms, Meanwhile, recording the patients' basic information: gender, age and so on, and studying the relationship between them and QOL in these patients.Results The Results showed that the stroke patients in acute phase have a lower QOL compared with ordinary Chinese norms, there is a varying dependability between QOL and ADL, gender, age, disease type, diseased region, living environment of these patients, of which, ADL, age, disease type were the most conspicuous.Conclusion The stroke could reduce the QOL of patients and ADL, age, disease type were the most important factors.

Key words: stroke, quality of life, correlation coefficient