Performance evaluation of community continuous rehabilitation intervention on patients with stroke

Abstract

Objective To explore the pathway of continuous rehabilitation intervention in community stroke patients and to evaluate its effect. Methods Stroke patients (64 cases) were selected from Yuetan community as the rehabilitation group by objective sampling based on inclusive and exclusive standard and 64 stroke patients wre selected from other community in Xicheng district as the control group. At the same time, 16 doctors and nurses from 10 clinics of Yuetan community health service center were trained and they gave reha-bilitative intervention to the rehabilitation group. After intervention for 6 months, the effect of rehabilitative in-tervention was evaluated compared with the control group who did not receive rehabilitative intervention. Re-suits The Fugl-Meyer score of the rehabilitation group was (76.14±12.48), the score of the control group was (19.36±14.32),which had significant difference compared with the rehabilitation group, P < 0.05. The Batthel index of the rehabilitation group was (72.25±10.22), the index of the control group was (22.62±9.71),which was significantly different from that of the rehabilitation group, P < 0.05.Besidcs, the rate of knowing health knowledge and healthy exercise in the rehabilitation group was higher than that of the control group, P < 0.05. Condusions The rehabilitation information net and systemic community rehabilitation intervention can im-prove the motor ability and the ability of daily activity for patients with stroke. Key words: Stroke; Community; Rehabilitation