Activity monitoring of stroke patients by physiotherapist and caregivers in a hospital setting: A pilot study.

Autor:	Shankaranarayana AM; Department of Physiotherapy, Manipal College of Health Professions, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, Karnataka, 576104, India., Pattan YS; Department of Physiotherapy, Manipal College of Health Professions, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, Karnataka, 576104, India., Hegde N; Department of Physiotherapy, Manipal College of Health Professions, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, Karnataka, 576104, India., Natarajan M; Department of Physiotherapy, Manipal College of Health Professions, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, Karnataka, 576104, India.; Centre for Comprehensive Stroke Rehabilitation and Research, Manipal College of Health Professions, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, Karnataka, 576104, India., Pai AR; Department of Neurology, Kasturba Medical College Hospital, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, Karnataka, 576104, India., Nayak R; Department of Neurosurgery, Kasturba Medical College Hospital, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, Karnataka, 576104, India., Solomon JM; Department of Physiotherapy, Manipal College of Health Professions, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, Karnataka, 576104, India.; Centre for Comprehensive Stroke Rehabilitation and Research, Manipal College of Health Professions, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, Karnataka, 576104, India.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	F1000Research [F1000Res] 2023 Nov 10; Vol. 11, pp. 1227. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Nov 10 (Print Publication: 2022).
DOI:	10.12688/f1000research.124675.2
Abstrakt:	Background: Activity monitoring is a necessary technique to ensure stroke survivors' activity levels in the hospital are within optimal levels as this is important for enhanced motor recovery. However, this could be time-consuming for healthcare professionals like physiotherapists. Activity monitoring by caregivers could be an alternate option. Therefore, our aim was to compare the activity monitoring of stroke survivors by caregivers and physiotherapists during early phase in a hospital setting. Methods: An observation study was carried out in the neuroscience ward in a tertiary care hospital among 17 stroke survivors. Physiotherapist and caregivers were instructed to use an activity log chart that was developed during previous research conducted by the same authors for observing the activities performed by the patients every 15 minutes from 8 AM to 5 PM across one day. Data collected were analysed using Stata 15. Kappa statistics were carried out to determine the agreement of the observations between the two raters. Results: A total of 10 male and seven female caregivers of stroke survivors with a mean age of 40.11 ± 9.2 years and a trained physiotherapist participated in the study. A total of 272 observations of caregivers were in agreement with that of the physiotherapist. Inter-rater Kappa statistics showed 60% agreement between the physiotherapist and the caregivers (p<0.05). Conclusions: There was moderate agreement between the physiotherapist and caregiver for activity monitoring of stroke survivors. This suggests behavioural mapping by caregivers may be a potential alternative solution in healthcare settings. Competing Interests: No competing interests were disclosed. (Copyright: © 2023 Shankaranarayana AM et al.)
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