STROKE SURVIVORS
The impact of short and long sleep duration on instrumental activities of daily living among stroke survivors
... of stroke, number of strokes, duration of stroke, chronicity/sever- ity of stroke, functional status as measured by modified Rankin Scale, medical comorbidities, and medication and physical function ...
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Development of a patient-centred, patient-reported outcome measure (PROM) for post-stroke cognitive rehabilitation: qualitative interviews with stroke survivors to inform design and content
... Stroke survivors were excluded if they were not pre-morbidly fluent in the English language and/or could not provide informed consent. This was due to the practical requirement to gain narratives from ...
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Assessing the impact of upper limb disability following stroke: A qualitative enquiry using internet based personal accounts of stroke survivors
... following stroke may have multiple effects on the ...following stroke. Methods: Accounts by stroke survivors, in the form of web-based diaries (blogs) and stories, were sought using a blog ...
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Experiences of dysphagia after stroke: an interview study of stroke survivors and their informal caregivers
... acute stroke affects development of ...a stroke to give a more rounded picture of delivery of care and ensure that the perspectives of stroke survivors and their informal caregivers are ...
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The Prevalence of Stroke Survivors in Urban Slums in Enugu, Nigeria
... Background: Stroke is one of the commonest non-communicable diseases and the commonest cause of death in adult neurology ...wards. Stroke preva- lence in sub Saharan Africa has dramatically increased over ...
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The meaning of participation to stroke survivors: a qualitative study
... in stroke survivors, as while both participation and self-identity are already discussed in relation to stroke within the literature, the link between participation and self-identity in relation to ...
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Vision does not always help stroke survivors compensate for impaired limb position sense
... for stroke rehabili- tation clinicians. For stroke survivors who are able to com- pensate for impaired position sense with vision, this rehabilitation approach is ...for stroke ...
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The Relation of Fatigue and Illness Perceptions among Stroke Survivors
... prevalent symptom that has been recognized to have a major impact on a stroke-survivors quality of life. As part of their meta-analysis pharmacological as well as educational or psychological treatment ...
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Sustained inflammation 1.5 years post-stroke is not associated with depression in elderly stroke survivors
... of stroke survivors. Of the 243 patients at stroke admission, 32% (n = 77) had passed away while 7% (n = 17) declined to participate, leaving 149 volunteer patients at the ...2.9%). Stroke ...
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Can short-term residential care for stroke rehabilitation help to reduce the institutionalization of stroke survivors?
... for stroke rehabilitation with the usual care at GDH as a com- parison ...of stroke survivors choosing the new services, which limited the formal sample size calcula- tion based on the treatment ...
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Long-term morbidities in stroke survivors: a prospective multicenter study of Thai stroke rehabilitation registry
... Thai Stroke Rehabilitation Registry (TSRR), the first multi-center and hospital-based registry of re- habilitation for stroke patients in Thailand, and reported the stroke-related complications in ...
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Understanding the Sociocultural Health Belief Model Influencing Health Behaviors among Saudi Stroke Survivors
... What we need here is cultural competency, understanding the social and cultural influences that affect the quality of medical services and treatment. Cultural competence is a set of behaviors, knowledge, and beliefs that ...
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Caregiving Appraisal by Family Caregivers of Stroke Survivors in Nigeria
... Cronbach’s alpha for caregiving satisfaction, caregiving mastery, caregiving burden and environmental impact was 0.87, 0.76, 0.80 and 0.52 respectively. All data were collected by the second author and two research ...
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Modification of the Persian version of Hermans Achievement Motivation Questionnaire to develop an adapted scale for measuring motivation of post-stroke survivors in Iran
... a stroke to occur, motivation for recovery has been essential component of ...categorize stroke survivors subjectively into two groups: those who have been motivated or unmotivated, perhaps due to ...
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Assessment of Utilization of Rehabilitation Services among Stroke Survivors.
... approach was quantitative where data were collected in numerical forms and analyzed using descriptive or inferential statistics. The study constituted all the stroke survivors those reported in the Neuro ...
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DEPRESSION AND DISABILITY AMONG STROKE SURVIVORS IN MAIDUGURI, NIGERIA
... the stroke survivors assessed met the DSM-1V diagnostic criteria for ...all stroke survivors at any time during follow ...after stroke because of the study ...with stroke ...
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Adaptability of gait in stroke survivors
... In stroke survivors these basic rhythmic reciprocal movements are often disturbed; as stroke survivors tend to have asymmetric gait and impaired relative timing in interlimb coordination, ...
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Burden of Care and Quality of Life among Caregivers of Stroke Survivors: Influence of Clinical and Demographic Variables
... of stroke survivors and the limited rehabilitation centres in Ghana, the involvement of caregivers in the long term stroke recovery is paramount ...post stroke recovery and functional outcome ...
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Data Synthesis: Mean age of the included stroke survivors in 29 studies was 57 years (range
... walked at speeds matched to stroke survivors (1 study, low risk of bias, 31 participants).. We have shown that stroke survivors expend more energy (EE) compared to healthy controls, 10[r] ...
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