title: Participation in leisure activities after stroke: A survey of community-residing stroke survivors in Nigeria.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Leisure provides pleasure and relaxation, and has health benefits even after a stressful and life-changing event such as a stroke.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  This study examined leisure participation among a sample of community-residing stroke survivors in Nigeria.
  
  
  METHODS
  Fifty-five stroke survivors undergoing rehabilitation were consecutively recruited from two government hospitals in Northern Nigeria. Data on pre- and post-stroke participation, and socio-demographic (age, sex, marital, employment, and educational status) and clinical (level of disability, post-stroke duration, stroke type and side of hemiplegia/hemiparesis) attributes of the stroke survivors were obtained. Leisure participation was assessed in four domains of recreational, social, cognitive, and productive/creative activities. Associations between leisure participation and the socio-demographic and clinical variables were examined using bivariate analysis.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Mean (SD) age of the stroke survivors was 53.55 (14.39) years. Prevalence of leisure participation was 89.1%. Participation in specific leisure domains however varied thus: social (83.6%), cognitive (60%), recreational (41.8%), productive/creative activities (30.9%). Significant associations were observed between participation in cognitive, productive/creative, and recreational leisure activities, and specific socio-demographic and clinical attributes.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Leisure participation was high in a general sense but marginal in recreational and productive/creative activities. The observed socio-demographic and clinical associations with post-stroke leisure participation may assist in providing effective leisure rehabilitation strategies.
authors.forename: Grace
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Vincent-Onabajo
authors.forename: Cephas
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Blasu
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D006233:Persons with Disabilities / Q000523:psychology / Q000534:rehabilitation; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007899:Leisure Activities / Q000523:psychology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009549:Nigeria / Q000453:epidemiology; D012111:Residence Characteristics; D020521:Stroke / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology; D000071939:Stroke Rehabilitation; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D017741:Survivors / Q000523:psychology
keywords: Leisure; Nigeria; participation; stroke