Symptom experience and symptom burden of patients following first-ever stroke within 1 year: a cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT: Symptoms that are multidimensional and concurrent should be assessed from different dimensions and managed together. Few studies have evaluated concurrent and multidimensional symptoms in patients with stroke. Most studies of stroke focused on dysfunctions and complications. We hypothesize that patients with stroke have a heavy symptom burden within 1 year. This study aimed to describe multidimensional and concurrent symptoms within 1 year after stroke. This study recruited 230 patients with stroke from the Rehabilitation Department of Xuhui District Center Hospital of Shanghai and the Shanghai Sunshine Rehabilitation Center in China from March to September 2017. The patients' multidimensional symptom experience and symptom burden were analyzed using a self-made structured questionnaire an

SUBMITTER: Shi D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6183032 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature