Time-course for acquiring transfer independence in patients with subacute stroke: a prospective cohort study.

Objective: To clarify the time-course of longitudinal changes in the independence level of subtasks composing bed-wheelchair transfer among patients with stroke.

Design: Single-institution prospective cohort study.

Patients: A total of 137 consecutive post-stroke patients using wheelchair on admission to the subacute rehabilitation wards.

Differences in the difficulty of subtasks comprising the toileting task among patients with subacute stroke: A cohort study.

Introduction: Toileting comprises multiple subtasks, and the difficulty of each is critical to determining the target and priority of intervention. The study aimed to examine the difficulty of subtasks that comprise toileting upon admission and the reacquisition of skills of subtasks during hospitalization.

Materials And Methods: This was a single-center prospective cohort study.

Difficulty of the subtasks comprising bed-wheelchair transfer in patients with subacute strokes: A cohort study.

Objective: Bed-wheelchair transfer comprises multiple subtasks; hence, it is important to know the difficulty of each subtask to identify and prioritize subtasks that must be practiced. This study aimed to investigate the difficulty of the subtasks that comprise bed-wheelchair transfer upon admission and reacquiring subtask skills during hospitalization.

Materials And Methods: This was a single-center prospective cohort study.

Reliability and Validity of a New Toileting Assessment Form for Patients with Hemiparetic Stroke.

Background: Acquiring toileting independence is an important target of stroke rehabilitation. In planning an intervention for acquiring toileting independence, developing an assessment for individual subtasks that comprise toileting would assist in identifying specific tasks that prevent independence in patients and would facilitate interventions to improve toileting independence.

Objective: To examine the reliability and validity of a newly developed toileting assessment form, the Toileting Tasks Assessment Form (TTAF), for assessing toileting subtasks in hemiparetic stroke.

Reliability and Validity of a New Transfer Assessment Form for Stroke Patients.

Introduction: Transferring is a basic skill that is essential for mobility independence and indispensable for expanding activities of daily living of stroke patients using a wheelchair. Therefore, transfer independence is an important issue that greatly affects daily life in the hospital and at home. To offer an effective intervention to acquire a skill, developing an assessment for individual subtasks that comprise transferring would assist the identification of specific tasks that prevent independence in patients and facilitate interventions to improve transferring independence.