Development of the upper-body dressing scale for a buttoned shirt: a preliminary correlational study.

Objectives: A patient with poststroke hemiparesis learns to use the nonparetic arm to compensate for the weakness of the paretic arm to achieve independence in dressing. This is the learning process of new component actions on dressing. The purpose of this study was to develop the Upper-Body Dressing Scale (UBDS) for buttoned shirt dressing, which evaluates the component actions of upper-body dressing, and to provide preliminary data on internal consistency of the UBDS, as well as its reproducibility, validity, and sensitivity to clinical change.

Predicting recovery of upper-body dressing ability after stroke.

Objective: To identify predictors of the recovery of independent dressing ability after stroke.

Design: Prospective cohort study.

Setting: Rehabilitation unit at a university hospital.