OBJECTIVE To assess the rehabilitation needs of stroke survivors in Chennai, India, after discharge from the hospital. DESIGN Mixed-methods research design. SETTING Home-based. PARTICIPANTS Stroke survivors (n=50; mean age ± SD, 58.9±10.5y) and primary caregivers of these stroke survivors (n=50; mean age ± SD, 43.1±11.8y) took part in the quantitative survey. A subsample of stroke survivo...

Assessment of needs of patients with schizophrenia permits practitioners to prioritize, formulate and implement rehabilitation goals. Negative symptoms have been shown to present greater obstacles to effective rehabilitation. The study compared the rehabilitation needs of in and out-patients with schizophrenia, and its relationship with negative symptoms. Thirty each of out patients and short t...

BACKGROUND Formalized and systematic assessment of survivorship care and rehabilitation needs is prerequisite for ensuring cancer patients sufficient help and support through their cancer trajectory. Patients are often uncertain as to how to express and address their survivorship care and rehabilitation needs, and little is known about specific, unmet needs and the plans necessary to meet them....

PURPOSE To explore the needs for basic community-based rehabilitation services for disabled persons in Xuanwu District, Beijing, China, and to identify factors which influence disabled persons to accept rehabilitation services. METHOD One hundred and eight disabled persons were selected by systematic sampling and simple random sampling to assess their needs for community-based rehabilitation ...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Met care demands are key aspects in poststroke quality of care. This study aimed to identify baseline predictors and 12-month factors that were associated with perceived unmet rehabilitation needs 1 year poststroke. METHODS Data on patients who were independent in activities of daily living, hospitalized for acute stroke during 2008 to 2010, and followed up 1 year posts...

59 Feighner positive Schizophrenics were assessed for subjective rehabilitation needs using a specially designed schedule for the purpose. It was observed that employment and vocational rehabilitation were most sought after, psychosocial rehabilitation less so, and accommodation hardly at all. Both women and men had identical needs, and the necessity for individualised package programmes was id...