title: Factors related to independent social living of poststroke patients with mild impairment.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Hatsudai Rehabilitation Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.
authors.forename: Masaaki
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Okada
mesh_terms: 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*