Physiotherapy & Physical Rehabilitation

Biography

Biography: Zhenxiang Zhang

Abstract

Stroke is the leading cause of disability and death worldwide, especially in China. However, the limited medical resources make stroke patients go back to their home without continuous rehabilitation guidance. In order to understand the status of professional care demands in stroke survivor lived in community, explore its influence factors, and analyze the first need of professional care demands in stroke survivor with different activities of daily living (ADL). We developed the Professional Care Demands Questionnaire (PCDQ) for Stroke Survivors lived in community and test its reliability and validity. Then we investigated the unmet professional care demands of community-dwelling stroke survivors. Results showed that PCDQ was a reliable and valid tool for measuring the professional care needs of the patients with stroke in community. The professional care demands in stroke survivor lived in community was high, included life care demand, professional knowledge and skills demand, the score of sequelae and complications care demand, social support demand, etc. We also found that stroke patients’ ADL, marital status, diagnosis, main caregivers’ relationship were influencing factors, in addition, life nursing was the first need of professional care for stroke survivors who lived in community with server disability, professional knowledge and skills were the primary needs for stroke survivors lived in community with moderately disability, and mild dependent or independent. So, we can conclude that in the future, researches should take more attention to the factors which can be modified or educated, and then provide the most needed care to stroke survivors.