Introduction: Nowadays stroke is a public health problem with consequences that include physical, cognitive, and emotional difficulties that impact the patients' quality of life in the short-and long-term. Objective: To describe the quality of life of stroke patients from Ibague, Colombia, three months post-injury. Methods: Forty patients with stroke and forty unaffected age-, education-, and gender-matched control participants were recruited. All participants completed a sociodemographic questionnaire, and The Short Form Health Survey (SF-36)