Factors related to independent social living of poststroke patients with mild impairment.
OBJECTIVE
To evaluate factors related to independent social living of poststroke patients with mild impairment who live at home after hospitalization.


METHODS
Forty-one participants were selected who scored 80 points or more on the Barthel Index (BI) and 25 or more points on the revised Hasegawa Dementia Scale (HDS-R). All of them returned home after receiving functional exercises for poststroke rehabilitation.


METHODS
The functional data of inpatients and the results of a mailed questionnaire based on the Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology (TMIG) index and the Craig Handicap Assessment and Reporting Technique, revised Japanese version (CHART-J), were compared.


RESULTS
Of the 6 CHART dimensions, Social Integration and Economic Self-sufficiency did not correlate with functional data during the hospitalized period. Participants generally scored lower in Occupation than in the other CHART dimensions with a higher standard deviation.


CONCLUSIONS
From the viewpoint of functional impairment of poststroke patients, their motor function can be estimated relatively easily, but such dimensions as Social Integration and Economic Self-sufficiency are more difficult to evaluate with other methods. CHART is useful for evaluating the social activity of poststroke patients who live at home.
Okada
Masaaki
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Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Hatsudai Rehabilitation Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.
D000203:Activities of Daily Living; D000328:Adult; D003072:Cognition Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology; D004185:Disability Evaluation; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D012931:Social Environment; D020521:Stroke / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000503:physiopathology*