Association of patient quality of life with the degree of agreement in the perceptions of patient disability within the stroke patient-rehabilitation therapist dyad: a cross-sectional study in postdischarge rehabilitation setting.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The purpose of study was to explore the association between patient physical and psychological quality of life (QOL) with the degree of agreement in perceptions of patient disability within the stroke patient-rehabilitation therapist dyad.

Design

Cross-sectional dyadic study with a tablet-based structured questionnaire.

Setting

Rehabilitation, nursing and long-term care facilities that provide rehabilitation services in the Kanagawa prefecture, Japan.

Participants

The 81 dyads of a male patient with stroke living at home and the rehabilitation therapist in charge of the eligible patient were recruited from March 2019 to February 2020.

Method

Patient physical and psychological QOL was measured using the WHOQOL BREF. Perceptions of patient disab

SUBMITTER: Takashi N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8103374 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature