Activity monitoring of stroke patients by physiotherapist and caregivers in a hospital setting: A pilot study [version 2; peer review: 2 approved, 2 not approved]

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 moni...

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Published in:F1000 research 2022, Vol.11, p.1227-1227
Main Authors: Shankaranarayana, Apoorva M., Pattan, Yakub Sameerkhan, Hegde, Nikhil, Natarajan, Manikandan, Pai, Aparna R., Nayak, Raghavendra, Solomon, John M.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
activity monitoring
Behavioural mapping
Brain research
Caregivers
eng
Exercise
Health care
Hospitals
Neurosciences
Patients
Physical fitness
Physical therapy
Pilot projects
Rehabilitation
Statistics
Stroke
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Summary: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
ISSN:2046-1402
2046-1402
DOI:10.12688/f1000research.124675.2