Deans' stroke musings: An exploratory investigation of the effect of naturalistic light on depression, anxiety, and cognitive outcomes in stroke patients during admission for rehabilitation: A randomized controlled trial

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My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Tuesday, August 20, 2019

An exploratory investigation of the effect of naturalistic light on depression, anxiety, and cognitive outcomes in stroke patients during admission for rehabilitation: A randomized controlled trial

You wouldn't need to address any of these secondary problems if you had protocols leading to 100% recovery.

An exploratory investigation of the effect of on depression, anxiety, and cognitive outcomes in stroke patients during admission for rehabilitation: A randomized controlled trial

Neurorehabilitation , Volume 44(3) , Pgs. 341-351.

NARIC Accession Number: J81306. What's this?
ISSN: 1053-8135.
Author(s): West, Anders; Simonsen, Sofie A.; Zielinski, Alexander; Cyril, Niklas; Schonsted, Marie; Jennum, Poul; Sander, Birgit; Iversen, Helle K..
Publication Year: 2019.
Number of Pages: 11.
Abstract: Study examined the effect of naturalistic lighting (i.e., artificial light imitating the sunlight rhythm and spectrum) on depression, anxiety, and cognition in a hospital setting among patients admitted for post-stroke rehabilitation. Ninety stroke patients in need of rehabilitation were randomized to either a rehabilitation unit equipped entirely with always-on naturalistic lighting (IU) or to a rehabilitation unit with standard indoor lighting (CU). Examinations were performed at inclusion and discharge. The following changes were investigated: depressive mood based on the Hamilton Depression scale and Major Depression Inventory scale, anxiety based on the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale, cognition based on the Montreal Cognitive Assessment and well-being based on the Well-being Index. Depressive mood and anxiety was reduced, and well-being was increased, in the IU at discharge compared to the CU. No difference was found in cognition. This study is the first to demonstrate that exposure to naturalistic light during admission may significantly improve mental health in rehabilitation patients. Further studies are needed to confirm these findings.
Descriptor Terms: ANXIETY DISORDERS, COGNITION, DEPRESSION, INTERVENTION, MENTAL HEALTH, REHABILITATION SERVICES, STROKE, THERAPY.

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Citation: West, Anders, Simonsen, Sofie A., Zielinski, Alexander, Cyril, Niklas, Schonsted, Marie, Jennum, Poul, Sander, Birgit, Iversen, Helle K.. (2019). An exploratory investigation of the effect of naturalistic light on depression, anxiety, and cognitive outcomes in stroke patients during admission for rehabilitation: A randomized controlled trial. Neurorehabilitation , 44(3), Pgs. 341-351. Retrieved 8/20/2019, from REHABDATA database.