Deans' stroke musings: Nutritional status as a predictor of comprehensive activities of daily living function and quality of life in patients with stroke

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.

Sunday, September 26, 2021

Nutritional status as a predictor of comprehensive activities of daily living function and quality of life in patients with stroke

So you found a relationship of nutritional status with recovery but did nothing to create a diet protocol. Useless.

Nutritional status as a predictor of comprehensive activities of daily living function and quality of life in patients with stroke

NeuroRehabilitation , Volume 48(3) , Pgs. 337-343.

NARIC Accession Number: J86981. What's this?
ISSN: 1053-8135.
Author(s): Lee, Ya-Chen ; Chiu, En-Chi.
Publication Year: 2021.
Number of Pages: 7.

Abstract:

Study examined the relationship among nutritional status, evaluated using the full Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA) or MNA-short form (MNA-SF); comprehensive activities of daily living (ADL) function; and quality of life (QOL) in patients with stroke. Eighty-two patients with ischemic stroke participated in this cross-sectional design study. Each participant was assessed with the full MNA, MNA-SF, comprehensive ADL function (including Barthel Index and Frenchay Activities Index), and WHO Quality of Life Questionnaire (WHOQOL-BREF) once. The MNA-SF was only significantly correlated with the comprehensive ADL function, while the full MNA was found to be significantly correlated with the comprehensive ADL function and WHOQOL-BREF. The MNA-SF was a significant predictor of comprehensive ADL function, accounting for 44 percent of the variance. The full MNA was the only significant predictor of the WHOQOL-BREF, explaining 17 percent of the variance. This study revealed a relationship among nutritional status, comprehensive ADL function, and QOL among patients with stroke. Patients with stroke with better nutritional status had higher ADL function as well as better QOL. The MNA-SF was useful in predicting comprehensive ADL, while the full MNA could be used to predict QOL. Knowledge and evidence of the association and predictive power of the MNA-SF and full MNA could guide clinicians to choose tools for assessing the nutritional status of patients with stroke more effectively.
Descriptor Terms: DAILY LIVING, NUTRITION, QUALITY OF LIFE, SELF CARE, STROKE.

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Citation: Lee, Ya-Chen , Chiu, En-Chi. (2021). Nutritional status as a predictor of comprehensive activities of daily living function and quality of life in patients with stroke. NeuroRehabilitation , 48(3), Pgs. 337-343. Retrieved 9/26/2021, from REHABDATA database.