Deans' stroke musings: Impact of rehabilitation adherence and depressive symptoms on post-stroke self-care ability and quality of life: a longitudinal study

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.

What this blog is for:

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, September 23, 2023

Impact of rehabilitation adherence and depressive symptoms on post-stroke self-care ability and quality of life: a longitudinal study

Why are you working on the secondary problem of depression when the correct solution is to address the primary problem of 100% recovery? 100% recovery and there is no depression to fix!

Impact of rehabilitation adherence and depressive symptoms on post-stroke self-care ability and quality of life: a longitudinal study

Received 24 Feb 2023, Accepted 09 Sep 2023, Published online: 18 Sep 2023

ABSTRACT

Background

Good rehabilitation adherence leads to effective post-stroke recovery. However, some recovering patients experience post-stroke depressive symptoms, which can affect post-stroke health outcomes. Previous studies have not examined the effect of a combination of rehabilitation adherence and depressive symptoms on recovery after a stroke.

Objectives

This study explored the combined predictive influence of rehabilitation adherence and post-stroke depressive symptoms on self-care abilities and quality of life in patients with stroke.

Methods

This prospective longitudinal study analyzed data from 75 stroke patients. We examined rehabilitation adherence (self-reported, five-point scale), post-stroke depressive symptoms (Taiwanese Depression Scale), self-care ability (Chinese versions of the Barthel Index and Lawton – Brody Instrumental Activities of Daily Living Scale), and post-stroke quality of life (World Health Organization Quality of Life-BREF). Patients were followed up for six months after inclusion. The influence of rehabilitation adherence and post-stroke depressive symptoms on post-stroke self-care abilities and quality of life was examined using generalized estimating equations.

Results

The sample’s mean age was 60.85 (±12.9) years. Patients with perfect rehabilitation adherence had better self-care abilities and quality of life than those with imperfect rehabilitation adherence. Patients without post-stroke depressive symptoms had a better quality of life than their counterparts. Patients with perfect rehabilitation adherence and no post-stroke depressive symptoms had better self-care abilities and quality of life than those with imperfect rehabilitation adherence and post-stroke depressive symptoms.