Patients’ knowledge, attitude, and practice toward stroke rehabilitation: a web-based cross-sectional study

IF you were to ask them honestly, they would say 'STROKE REHAB IS A CROCK OF SHIT: ABSOLUTELY NOTHING SPECIFIC THAT WILL GUANANTEE RECOVERY'!  And you blithering idiots of stroke medical 'professionals' will ignore reality once again and ignore the real survivors telling them about their useless crapola!

 'You can't handle the truth'! Jack Nicholson as Colonel Nathan R. Jessup in 'A Few Good Men'.

 Patients’ knowledge, attitude, and practice toward stroke rehabilitation: a web-based cross-sectional study

Xiaoling Qian¹Haixia Wang¹Xiaoyan Wang¹Tingting Wu¹Hongmei Han¹Xia Bu¹Fengling Teng^2*

• ¹Lanzhou University Second Hospital, Lanzhou, Gansu Province, China
• ²Lanzhou university first hospital, Lanzhou, China

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Objective: The objective of this research was to comprehensively assess how well patients understand stroke rehabilitation, their perceptions of it, and their inclination to participate. Methods: This web-based cross-sectional study was conducted between February and June 2023 at the Second Hospital of Lanzhou University, using a self-administered questionnaire. Results: A total of 497 valid questionnaires were enrolled, including 342 (68.81%) males. The mean score of knowledge, attitude and practice was 11.79±0.63 (possible range: 0-12), 36.06±2.55 (possible range: 12-60), and 58.24±5.08 (possible range: 14-70), respectively. The results demonstrated that knowledge has a positive and significant direct effect on attitudes (β = 0.249, p < 0.001), and attitudes had direct effects on practice (β = 0.443, p < 0.001). Knowledge had direct (β = 0.124, p = 0.002) and indirect effects (β = 0.111, p < 0.001) on practice. Conclusion: Stroke patients had sufficient knowledge, unfavorable attitude and positive practice towards stroke and rehabilitation training. This study showed that addressing and enhancing individuals' attitudes could be a key strategy in promoting more positive and effective practice toward stroke and rehabilitation training among stroke patients.

Keywords: Knowledge, attitude and willingnesspractice, Stroke, Rehabilitation, structural equation model, Cross-sectional study

Received: 14 Mar 2025; Accepted: 21 Jul 2025.

Copyright: © 2025 Qian, Wang, Wang, Wu, Han, Bu and Teng. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

* Correspondence: Fengling Teng, Lanzhou university first hospital, Lanzhou, China

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