Self-Awareness and Recovery of Independence With Strategy Training.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Poor self-awareness co-occurs with cognitive impairments after stroke and may influence independence in daily activities. Strategy training promotes independence after stroke, but poor awareness may attenuate treatment response. We examined the degree to which awareness status affected changes in independence attributed to strategy training.

Method

We conducted a secondary analysis of 30 participants with cognitive impairments after acute stroke randomized to strategy training or attention control in addition to typical inpatient rehabilitation. We measured awareness with the Self-Awareness of Deficits Interview and independence with the FIM™. Data were analyzed using general linear models.

Results

Poor awareness attenuated improvements in independence over

SUBMITTER: Skidmore ER 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5744716 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan/Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature