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The Investigation Of Social Outcome For Stroke Patients In Souyhern Taiwan, Jyh-Jong Chang, Tsui-Hsien Chien, Shih-Yin Chen, Young-Tso Lin

Rehabilitation Practice and Science

One hundred and fifty-six stroke patients were investigated to analyze the changes of time or frequency of performing social activities between pre-stroke and post-stroke stages. Modified (Frenchay activities index) questionnaire was used and subjects were devided into three groups by the Barthel scores. Within- subjects Wilcoxon signed-rank test was used to analyze the collected data. The results showed social activities were grossly disrupted in most patients after stroke especially in group I, group II (ADL-dependent groups), while group III (ADL-independent group) was primarily limited in outdoors social activities. Most of the stroke pa-tients spent much time in day-time sleep and …