The article presents the colorimetric testing of rehabilitation games designed for the StrokeBack project. In this testing the main subject of the investigation was how the people with different colour-blindness types can percept the games. Many of the programmers and game designers do not pay attention to the aspect that the games should be accessible. This accessibility implies that the colou...

BACKGROUND Various studies have reported discordant profiles of health-related quality of life (HRQOL) after stroke. The aims of this study, the first of its kind, were to determine the real impact of stroke on HRQOL across diverse cultures; and to compare HRQOL between stroke patients and healthy adults, and across stroke severity strata. METHODS 100 stroke patients and 100 apparently health...

OBJECTIVE To explore the attitudes and beliefs of stroke patients identified by professionals as having either "high" or "low" motivation for rehabilitation. DESIGN Qualitative study with semistructured interviews. SETTING The stroke unit of an inner city teaching hospital. PARTICIPANTS 22 patients with stroke who were undergoing rehabilitation; 14 with high motivation for rehabilitation ...

OBJECTIVES This study aimed to identify factors that assessors considered important in decision-making regarding suitability for inpatient rehabilitation after acute severe stroke. DESIGN Multi-site prospective observational cohort study. SUBJECTS Consecutive acute, severe stroke patients and their assessors for inpatient rehabilitation. METHODS Rehabilitation assessors completed a questi...

This prospective multicenter study identifies the variables significant in the prediction of rehabilitation efficiency, achievement of rehabilitation potential and duration of rehabilitation stay in 258 persons with a first stroke admitted to comprehensive inpatient rehabilitation in Brisbane, Australia, during 1984. All three dependent variables were poorly predicted, with only 17% of the vari...

Traditionally, practitioners of stroke rehabilitation are taught that benefits of rehabilitation are achieved primarily through training patients in new techniques to compensate for impairments, and that neurological recovery is predominantly spontaneous in nature. Recent animal and human experiments have, however, indicated that the adult brain is capable of reorganisation and the term plastic...

BACKGROUND Approximately 80% of people who survive a stroke have on average five other conditions and a wide range of psychosocial issues. Attention to biopsychosocial issues has led to the identification of 'complex patients'. No single definition of 'patient complexity' exists; therefore, applied health researchers seek to understand 'patient complexity' as it relates to a specific clinical c...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Mexican Americans (MAs) have worse neurological, functional, and cognitive outcomes after stroke. Stroke rehabilitation is important for good outcome. In a population-based study, we sought to determine whether allocation of stroke rehabilitation services differed by ethnicity. METHODS Patients with stroke were identified as part of the Brain Attack Surveillance in Corp...

BACKGROUND Family caregivers provide the stroke survivor with social support and continuity during the transition home from a rehabilitation facility. In this exploratory study we examined family caregivers' perceptions and experiences navigating the stroke rehabilitation system. The theories of continuity of care and complex adaptive systems were integrated to examine the transition from a str...