Wednesday, August 19, 2020

How to identify fatigue in stroke patients: An investigation of the post-stroke fatigue case definition validity

Why not make this even simpler, ask the patient; 'Can you get thru the day without needing a nap?' Y/N? Then you provide them with SOLUTIONS/PROTOCOLS  to fix that fatigue.  

At least half of all stroke survivors experience fatigue Or is it 70%?

Or is it 40%?

They need solutions, not useless research like this crapola. 

 How to identify fatigue in stroke patients: An investigation of the post-stroke fatigue case definition validity

Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation , Volume 27(5) , Pgs. 369-376.

NARIC Accession Number: J84059.  What's this?
ISSN: 1074-9357.
Author(s): Poulsen, Mai B. ; Skovbølling, Sara L. ; Kruuse, Christina ; Overgaard, Karsten ; Rasmussen, Rune S..
Publication Year: 2020.
Number of Pages: 8.

Abstract: 

Study assessed the validity and inter-rater agreement of the case definition of post-stroke fatigue and determined the optimal cutoff scores for significant fatigue on the Multidimensional Fatigue Inventory-20 (MFI-20) and the Fatigue Severity Scale-7 (FSS-7) questionnaires. Seventy stroke patients were interviewed with the structured interview schedule for the case definition and asked to complete the two questionnaires. To examine the inter-rater agreement of the case definition a second interviewer did another interview blinded to the result of the first interview. The median age of participants was 74 years and the median time from stroke to interview was 8 days. The median FSS-7 score and the median MFI-20 (General Fatigue subscale) score were higher in the case definition positive than in the negative group. The kappa value for the inter-rater agreement was 0.63. A cutoff score equal to or greater than 5 for the FSS-7 and a cutoff score equal to or greater than 12 on the MFI-20 were optimal to identify marked fatigue according to the case definition.
Descriptor Terms: CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME, DISABILITY DETERMINATION, INTERVIEW TECHNIQUES, MEASUREMENTS, OUTCOMES, PERFORMANCE STANDARDS, REHABILITATION, STROKE.


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Get this Document: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10749357.2019.1704387.

Citation: Poulsen, Mai B. , Skovbølling, Sara L. , Kruuse, Christina , Overgaard, Karsten , Rasmussen, Rune S.. (2020). How to identify fatigue in stroke patients: An investigation of the post-stroke fatigue case definition validity.  Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation , 27(5), Pgs. 369-376. Retrieved 8/19/2020, from REHABDATA database.
 

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