PMID: 11911929Mar 26, 2002Paper

Relationship between burden of care at home and functional independence level after stroke

Annales de réadaptation et de médecine physique : revue scientifique de la Société française de rééducation fonctionnelle de réadaptation et de médecine physique
Paul CalmelsIsabelle Fayolle-Minon

Abstract

To determine the relationship between functional disability assessed with the Functional Independence Measure (FIM) and burden of care in hemiplegic stroke patients living at home. The population is constituted of stroke survivors, initially treated in an academic inpatient Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation unit. Assessments included an evaluation of impairments (aphasia, negligence, cognitive impairment, motor impairment : Fugl-Meyer (FM) scale), disability (Functional Independence Measure (FIM) ), and burden of care (physical assistance and supervision). Forty-five subjects and their caregiver completed the assessments. Time spent on physical assistance and supervision were significantly correlated with FM and FIM scores. Cognitive deficits correlated with supervision time but not with physical assistance time. These results confirm the predictive value of functional independence measure relative to burden of care in a population of stroke patients with hemiplegia living at home. These results show that cognitive impairments are more specifically correlated with supervision time. This must be confirmed by studies taking into account functional and cognitive conditions of the patient, functional and psychological conditions...Continue Reading

References

Apr 1, 1992·Stroke; a Journal of Cerebral Circulation·M AströmT Aström
Jul 1, 1992·Stroke; a Journal of Cerebral Circulation·C V GrangerR C Fiedler
Jun 1, 1973·Neurology·M L Albert
Jul 1, 1968·The British Journal of Psychiatry : the Journal of Mental Science·G BlessedM Roth
May 1, 1995·Stroke; a Journal of Cerebral Circulation·C S AndersonE G Stewart-Wynne
Jun 1, 1994·The Journal of Neuroscience Nursing : Journal of the American Association of Neuroscience Nurses·A Williams
Jan 1, 1994·Stroke; a Journal of Cerebral Circulation·M P Alexander
Feb 1, 1993·Stroke; a Journal of Cerebral Circulation·R de HaanH van Crevel
Dec 1, 1996·Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation·K J OttenbacherR C Fiedler
Jan 29, 1999·American Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation·F BéthouxV Gautheron

❮ Previous
Next ❯

Related Concepts

Related Feeds

Aphasia

Aphasia affects the ability to process language, including formulation and comprehension of language and speech, as well as the ability to read or write. Here is the latest research on aphasia.