title: Effectiveness of an occupational therapy home programme in Spain for people affected by stroke.
abstract: The main aim of this paper is to assess the effects of an occupational therapy home programme in Spain on 23 people who had had stroke (mean age 61.17 years). The programme was made up of a set of activities and techniques of physical, cognitive, social and functional nature aimed at preventing, maintaining and/or rehabilitating the abilities affected of people who had had stroke. A multiple-baseline intrasubject design and replication with a treatment withdrawal period to check whether the effects of the programme remained was applied. The results show a significant statistical improvement, concerning not only the participants' cognitive skills through Loewenstein Occupational Therapy Cognitive Assessment Battery - Second Edition but also their functional independence as assessed by the Barthel Index. Despite the low number of participants, being one of the limitations of our study, the results support the need to carry out research about the effectiveness of rehabilitation treatments in the home with the goal to plan how public healthcare systems should tackle them and how to improve those already being used.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Health Sciences, University of A Coruña, A Coruña, Spain.
authors.forename: Adriana
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ávila
authors.forename: Montserrat
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Durán
authors.forename: Manuel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Peralbo
authors.forename: Gabriel
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Torres
authors.forename: Miguel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Saavedra
authors.forename: Inés M
authors.initials: IM
authors.lastname: Viana
mesh_terms: D000203:Activities of Daily Living; D000368:Aged; D003071:Cognition; D005260:Female; D006699:Home Care Services; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009788:Occupational Therapy; D015397:Program Evaluation; D013030:Spain; D020521:Stroke / Q000523:psychology; D000071939:Stroke Rehabilitation; D016896:Treatment Outcome
keywords: Barthel Index; LOTCA; occupational therapy in the home; stroke