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Objective:this study aimed to assess of self-care activities among stroke patients’ and to find out the relationship between self-care activities and their demographic and clinicaldatasuch as age, gender, level of education and socioeconomic status. Methodology: Descriptive correlation design (Quantitative) was adopted in the current study to achieve the early stated objectives.The study was carried out from November, 1st, 2015 to June, 26th, 2016 in Al Najaf city.A (Purposive Sample) of (100) adult patient with stroke who attending the outpatients in the consultation unit either for consultations, treatment, or both.Data collection was done by applying of the developed questionnaire consist of three parts, part I consists of Socio-demographic characteristics contain (7) items, part II consists of Medical History contain (2) items, and part III consists of Self-Care Activities for Patient with stroke contain (6) domains, Data collected by direct interview method with stroke patients’.Reliability of the questionnaire was determined through pilot study and validity determined through a panel of experts consists of (20) experts.Data was analyzed by usingdescriptive data analysis includes (Frequencies, Percentages, and Mean of scores), Cutoff point (0.66), and statistical figures (Bar charts, Pie Charts and Histogram) and Pearson's Correlation Coefficients (Reliability), and Inferential Data Analysis include Chi-Square to test independency distribution of observed frequencies. Results: The result of the study present that the self-care activities are interdependent andthere is a significant association between the patients' self-care activities with their age, gender, marital status before stroke, and occupational status after stroke,while there is high significant relationship between the patients' self-care activities occupational status before stroke.While there is a non-significant difference between self-care activities and their clinical data in all items except there is only a significant difference in duration of smoking.