Deans' stroke musings: Experience of information provision at the stroke unit from the perspective of relatives to stroke survivors

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.

Sunday, April 25, 2021

Experience of information provision at the stroke unit from the perspective of relatives to stroke survivors

Oh God, measuring the delivery of information rather than the actual recovery delivered. Since there was no delivery of 100% stroke recovery protocols you're completely not doing anything useful. Every single relative should have reamed them out for not providing any information to get them recovered.

Experience of information provision at the stroke unit from the perspective of relatives to stroke survivors

Rehabilitation Process and Outcome , Volume 8

NARIC Accession Number: J85749. What's this?
ISSN: 1179-5727.
Author(s): Kristensson, Linda ; Björkdahl, Ann.
Publication Year: 2021.
Number of Pages: 8.

Abstract:

Study explored how relatives of stroke survivors perceived the information they received while the stroke survivor was in the stroke unit. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 14 relatives of people who sustained a stroke and were admitted to any of the three stroke units at Sahlgrenska University Hospital in Gothenburg, Sweden. Qualitative content analysis served to analyze the transcribed interview texts. The content analysis yielded four categories, each with 2 to 3 subcategories. The overall theme was “to be acknowledged or not”; it encompassed the underlying meaning and the relationships between the categories. The four categories were: (1) shifting information needs, (2) striving for information, (3) lacking continuity and structure, and (4) taking part and being acknowledged. The results showed that the relatives of stroke survivors have a strong need for information and showed that the relatives experienced that they did not always feel satisfactorily informed and supported by the healthcare professionals in the stroke unit. A challenge for the healthcare professionals was to be able to give the right information at the right time and in the appropriate way. The study also showed that when the relatives were acknowledged and invited to participate in the rehabilitation process, they were less anxious of the discharge.
Descriptor Terms: COMMUNICATION, FAMILY-CENTERED CARE, HEALTH CARE, HOSPITALS, INTERNATIONAL REHABILITATION, QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS, REHABILITATION, STROKE.

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Citation: Kristensson, Linda , Björkdahl, Ann. (2021). Experience of information provision at the stroke unit from the perspective of relatives to stroke survivors. Rehabilitation Process and Outcome , 8 Retrieved 4/23/2021, from REHABDATA database.