title: Patient-Centered Goal Setting in a Hospital-Based Outpatient Stroke Rehabilitation Center.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Goal-setting can have a positive impact on stroke recovery during rehabilitation. Patient participation in goal formulation can ensure that personally relevant goals are set, and can result in greater satisfaction with the rehabilitation experience, along with improved recovery of stroke deficits. This, however, not yet been studied in a stroke outpatient rehabilitation setting.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To assess patient satisfaction of meeting self-selected goals during outpatient rehabilitation following a stroke.
  
  
  METHODS
  Retrospective chart review.
  
  
  METHODS
  Stroke patients enrolled in a multidisciplinary outpatient rehabilitation program, who set at least 1 goal during rehabilitation.
  
  
  METHODS
  Patients recovering from a stroke received therapy through the outpatient rehabilitation program between January 2010 and December 2013.
  
  
  METHODS
  Upon admission and discharge from rehabilitation, patients rated their satisfaction with their ability to perform goals that they wanted to achieve. Researchers independently sorted and labeled recurrent themes of goals. Goals were further sorted into International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) categories. To compare the perception of patients' goal satisfaction, repeated-measures analysis of variance was conducted across the 3 ICF goal categorizations.
  
  
  METHODS
  Goal satisfaction scores.
  
  
  RESULTS
  A total of 286 patients were included in the analysis. Patient goals concentrated on themes of improving hand function, mobility, and cognition. Goals were also sorted into ICF categories in which impairment-based and activity limitation-based goals were predominant. Compared to activity-based and participation-based goals, patients with impairment-based goals perceived greater satisfaction with meeting their goals at admission and discharge (P < .001). Patient satisfaction in meeting their first-, second-, and third-listed goals each significantly improved by discharge from the rehabilitation program (P < .001).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Within an outpatient stroke rehabilitation setting, patients set heterogeneous goals that were predominantly impairment based. Satisfaction in achieving goals significantly improved after receiving therapy. The type of goals that patients set were related to their goal satisfaction scores, with impairment-based goals being rated significantly higher than activity-based and participation-based goals.
  
  
  METHODS
  III.
authors.affiliation: Aging, Rehabilitation and Geriatric Care Program, Lawson Health Research Institute, Parkwood Institute, Main Building Room B3025, 550 Wellington Road, N6C 0A7, London, ON, Canada(∗). Electronic address: danielle.rice@sjhc.london.on.ca.
authors.forename: Danielle B
authors.initials: DB
authors.lastname: Rice
authors.affiliation: Aging, Rehabilitation and Geriatric Care Program, Lawson Health Research Institute, Parkwood Institute, London, ON, Canada(†).
authors.forename: Amanda
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: McIntyre
authors.affiliation: Aging, Rehabilitation and Geriatric Care Program, Lawson Health Research Institute, Parkwood Institute, London, ON, Canada(‡).
authors.forename: Magdalena
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Mirkowski
authors.affiliation: Aging, Rehabilitation and Geriatric Care Program, Lawson Health Research Institute, Parkwood Institute, London, ON, Canada(§).
authors.forename: Shannon
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Janzen
authors.affiliation: Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, St. Joseph's Health Care, Parkwood Institute, London, ON, Canada; Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada(‖).
authors.forename: Ricardo
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Viana
authors.affiliation: Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, St. Joseph's Health Care, Parkwood Institute, London, ON, Canada(¶).
authors.forename: Eileen
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Britt
authors.affiliation: Aging, Rehabilitation and Geriatric Care Program, Lawson Health Research Institute, Parkwood Institute, London, ON, Canada; Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, St. Joseph's Health Care, Parkwood Institute, London, ON, Canada; Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada(#).
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Teasell
mesh_terms: D000203:Activities of Daily Living; D000368:Aged; D015331:Cohort Studies; D004185:Disability Evaluation; D006233:Persons with Disabilities / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D005260:Female; D006040:Goals; D018737:Hand Strength / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010045:Outpatients / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D018802:Patient-Centered Care; D011379:Prognosis; D011788:Quality of Life; D020127:Recovery of Function; D012047:Rehabilitation Centers; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D020521:Stroke / Q000175:diagnosis; D000071939:Stroke Rehabilitation / Q000379:methods*; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D016138:Walking / Q000502:physiology