Purpose: To describe how fatigue is experienced by stroke survivors, how they understand and deal with fatigue and how fatigue impacts their daily life.
Method: A qualitative interview study was carried out as part of a larger longitudinal study investigating the prevalence, characteristics and contributing factors to post-stroke fatigue. Thirty-two participants (15 men and 17 women) were strategically sampled to explore the experiences of fatigue. Participants were interviewed at 6 months, 1 year and 2 years post-stroke. Data were analysed applying a Grounded theory approach.
Results: Patients clearly described and differentiated their experience between: (1) tiredness as an ordinary life event and (2) fatigue as a post-stroke life condition. Three fatigue-transforming strategies were identified, being on a mission, settling for less and stalling. Stalling seemed to put the stroke survivors in a particularly vulnerable situation. Over time, some participants moved between these two tiredness/fatigue manifestations and their range of strategies.
Conclusions: Post-stroke fatigue is a new life experience different from ordinary tiredness and seems to be a significant problem in the stroke survivors' struggle to regain a new normalcy. Intervention studies are needed to reduce the impact of post-stroke fatigue on coping and recovery.
Download full-text PDF |
Source |
|---|---|
| http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/09638288.2011.615373 | DOI Listing |
Publication Analysis
Top Keywords
Similar Publications
From stroke to depression: The need for systematic screening for post-stroke depression.
S Afr J Psychiatr
December 2024
Department of Internal Medicine, Cameroon Baptist Convention Health Services, Bamenda, Cameroon.
Background: Post-stroke depression (PSD) negatively impacts the physical and mental well-being of stroke survivors. However, data on the prevalence and risk factors of PSD in African countries such as Cameroon are limited.
Aim: This study aims to determine the prevalence and factors associated with PSD among stroke survivors at a hospital in Cameroon and inform clinical practice.
Association between malnutrition, depression, anxiety and fatigue after stroke in older adults: a cross-lagged panel analysis.
Aging Clin Exp Res
December 2024
Department of Neurology, Centre for Leading Medicine and Advanced Technologies of IHM, The First Affiliated Hospital of USTC, Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, 230001, China.
Background: Malnutrition, post-stroke depression (PSD), post-stroke anxiety (PSA), and post-stroke fatigue (PSF) in stroke survivors have complex relationships and are associated with adverse stroke outcomes.
Aims: This research aims to explore the temporal and directional relationships between malnutrition, PSD, PSA, and PSF after stroke in older adults.
Methods: Patients aged 65 years and older with their first ischemic stroke from two centers were selected and assessed at baseline, 3 months and 12 months.
Metaphor Diffusion in Online Health Communities: Infodemiology Study in a Stroke Online Health Community.
JMIR Cardio
December 2024
Primary Care Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Background: Online health communities (OHCs) enable patients to create social ties with people with similar health conditions outside their existing social networks. Harnessing mechanisms of information diffusion in OHCs has attracted attention for its ability to improve illness self-management without the use of health care resources.
Objective: We aimed to analyze the novelty of a metaphor used for the first time in an OHC, assess how it can facilitate self-management of post-stroke symptoms, describe its appearance over time, and classify its diffusion mechanisms.
[Moxibustion and acupuncture at acupoints of governor vessel combined with repeated transcranial magnetic stimulation for post-stroke fatigue: a randomized controlled trial].
Zhongguo Zhen Jiu
December 2024
Department of Rehabilitation, Second Affiliated Hospital of Anhui University of CM, Hefei 230061.
Objective: To observe the clinical efficacy of moxibustion and acupuncture at acupoints of the governor vessel combined with repeated transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) in the treatment of post-stroke fatigue (PSF).
Methods: A total of 78 patients with PSF were randomized into an observation group (39 cases, 1 case dropped out) and a control group (39 cases, 1 case dropped out). The patients in both groups received conventional medical basic treatment.
Functional Recovery in Acute and Subacute Stroke Patients With or Without Post-stroke Fatigue.
Brain Neurorehabil
November 2024
Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Kangwon National University Hospital, Kangwon National University School of Medicine, Chuncheon, Korea.
This study analyzed the impact of post-stroke fatigue (PSF) on functional recovery in acute and subacute stroke patients during inpatient rehabilitation. Medical records of 177 patients were retrospectively reviewed. PSF was assessed using the Fatigue Severity Scale (FSS)-9.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWant AI Summaries of new PubMed Abstracts delivered to your In-box?
Enter search terms and have AI summaries delivered each week - change queries or unsubscribe any time!