Quantifying Change During Outpatient Stroke Rehabilitation: A Retrospective Regression Analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To examine change and individual trajectories for balance, upper extremity motor capacity, and mobility in people poststroke during the time they received outpatient therapies.

Design

Retrospective analyses of an observational cohort using hierarchical linear modeling.

Setting

Outpatient rehabilitation.

Participants

Persons poststroke (N=366).

Interventions

Usual outpatient physical and occupational therapy.

Main outcomes measures

Berg Balance Scale (BBS), Action Research Arm Test (ARAT), and walking speed were used to assess the 3 domains. Initial scores at the start of outpatient therapy (intercepts), rate of change during outpatient therapy (slopes), and covariance between slopes and intercepts were modeled as random effects. Addition

SUBMITTER: Lohse K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5003650 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature