Deans' stroke musings: Development and validation of a questionnaire to assess barriers to physical activity after stroke: The barriers to physical activity after stroke scale

Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain! trillions and trillions of neurons that DIE each day because there are NO effective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 523 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.

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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.

Saturday, January 25, 2020

Development and validation of a questionnaire to assess barriers to physical activity after stroke: The barriers to physical activity after stroke scale

This is so easy. The answer to every barrier is that your stroke medical professionals failed completely in getting you to 100% recovery.

Development and validation of a questionnaire to assess barriers to physical activity after stroke: The barriers to physical activity after stroke scale

Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation , Volume 100(9) , Pgs. 1672-1679.

NARIC Accession Number: J82450. What's this?
ISSN: 0003-9993.
Author(s): Drigny, Joffrey; Joussain, Charles; Gremeaux, Vincent; Morello, Remy; Van Truc, Patricg h.; Staple, Paul; Touze, Emmanuel; Ruet, Alexis.
Publication Year: 2019.
Number of Pages: 8.

Abstract:

Article describes the development and validation of a self-reported questionnaire assessing the barriers to physical activity (PA) among stroke survivors. One hundred forty-six individuals were included in this study. In stage 1, semi-structured interviews conducted with 37 community-living stroke survivors with low-moderate disability identified perceived barriers to PA, which were then selected by the expert panel and grouped on a Barriers to Physical Activity After Stroke (BAPAS) scale. In stage 2, 109 stroke participants (40 were women) with same characteristics completed a personal information questionnaire and the BAPAS scale. Nine professionals experienced in PA for poststroke patients formed an expert panel. An item selection process with factor analysis was carried out. The suitability of the data set was analyzed using the Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin coefficient, internal consistency was evaluated by Cronbach alpha, and concurrent validity was assessed with Spearman correlation coefficients between the BAPAS scale and the modified Rankin Scale. Test-retest repeatability was estimated using 2-way random effects intraclass correlation coefficient model at 4- to 6-day follow-up. Factor analysis supported a 14-item BAPAS that explained 62 percent of total variance and total score calculated higher than 70 (higher scores for higher barriers). Cronbach alpha was 0.86, Spearman correlation with the modified Rankin Scale was 0.65, and test-retest intraclass correlation coefficient was 0.91. The BAPAS scores were higher in patients with greater disabilities and in those with a longer time since the stroke event. This study developed and validated the BAPAS scale to assess barriers to PA in stroke survivors with low-moderate disability with promising psychometric properties.
Descriptor Terms: BARRIERS, EXERCISE, MEASUREMENTS, OUTCOMES, PERFORMANCE STANDARDS, STROKE.

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Citation: Drigny, Joffrey, Joussain, Charles, Gremeaux, Vincent, Morello, Remy, Van Truc, Patricg h., Staple, Paul, Touze, Emmanuel, Ruet, Alexis. (2019). Development and validation of a questionnaire to assess barriers to physical activity after stroke: The barriers to physical activity after stroke scale. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation , 100(9), Pgs. 1672-1679. Retrieved 1/25/2020, from REHABDATA database.