Factors Related to Independent Social Living of Poststroke Patients with Mild Impairment

Abstract

Purpose: To evaluate factors related to independent social living of poststroke patients with mild impairment who live at home after hospitalization. Participants: 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. Method: 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. Conclusion: 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.

Keywords:

• CHART
• poststroke patients
• social living