Deans' stroke musings: Psychometric properties of meaningful activity participation assessment (MAPA) in chronic 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.

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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.

Saturday, October 23, 2021

Psychometric properties of meaningful activity participation assessment (MAPA) in chronic stroke survivors

What ever the hell good this jargon filled research is good for is unknown to me. What are the protocols that lead to life satisfaction, that is what is needed, not this measurement crapola.

Psychometric properties of meaningful activity participation assessment (MAPA) in chronic stroke survivors

Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation , Volume 28(6) , Pgs. 422-431.

NARIC Accession Number: J87254. What's this?
ISSN: 1074-9357.
Author(s): Cheraghifard, Moslem ; Taghizadeh, Ghorban ; Akbarfahimi, Malahat ; Eakman, Aaron M. ; Hosseinia, Seyed-Hossein ; Azad, Akram.
Publication Year: 2021.
Number of Pages: 10.

Abstract:

Study assessed the psychometric properties of the Meaningful Activity Participation Assessment (MAPA), a tool for assessing both objective and subjective aspects of participation, in chronic stroke survivors. One hundred seven chronic stroke survivors were evaluated. In addition to the MAPA, they were assessed by the Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS), Center for Epidemiologic Studies of Depression Scale (CES-D), Life Satisfaction Index-Z (LSI-Z), Purpose in Life Test-Short Form (PIL-SF), and 36-Item Short-Form Survey (SF-36). To investigate test-retest reliability, 37 participants were reassessed by MAPA after two weeks. Reliability, construct validity, and known-groups validity for the MAPA were evaluated. Results showed an acceptable internal consistency (Cronbach’s alpha = 0.79) and good test-retest reliability (intraclass correlation coefficient = 0.92) of MAPA. A significant moderate-to-high correlation was found between the MAPA and the PIL-SF, CES-D, LSI-Z, SWLS, and different subscales of SF-36 (Spearman’s correlation coefficient = 0.32–0.65). The MAPA showed good ability to differentiate between young adults (age≤ 65 years) and older adults (age> 65 years) with chronic stroke as well as between chronic stroke survivors with different levels of disability. The authors conclude that the MAPA has appropriate reliability and validity in chronic stroke survivors and suggest that it be used in research and clinical settings.
Descriptor Terms: COMMUNITY LIVING, DAILY LIVING, MEASUREMENTS, OUTCOMES, PERFORMANCE STANDARDS, STROKE.

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Citation: Cheraghifard, Moslem , Taghizadeh, Ghorban , Akbarfahimi, Malahat , Eakman, Aaron M. , Hosseinia, Seyed-Hossein , Azad, Akram. (2021). Psychometric properties of meaningful activity participation assessment (MAPA) in chronic stroke survivors. Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation , 28(6), Pgs. 422-431. Retrieved 10/23/2021, from REHABDATA database.