Causes of Dependence in Personal Care Three Years after StrokeA Study in the Home Environment.

Many activities of daily living (ADL) assessment instruments are available for judging the ability to perform personal care in, among others, persons suffering a stroke. However, ADL assessment instruments do not normally treat the underlying causes of failure to perform an activity.Seventeen persons with stroke were videotaped when performing personal care in their home environments about three years after the incident.

Antibody responses to synthetic peptides from cytomegalovirus phosphoprotein 150.

We have identified antigenic regions within phosphoprotein 150 of human cytomegalovirus (CMV pp150) to which seroreactivity appears in patients with active CMV infection or persists in seropositive persons. A range of 8.3 to 61.

A leisure-time frame of reference based on a literature analysis.

The aims of this study were, through literature analyses, to identify the concept 'leisure time,' to design a model of leisure time and to study the empirical methods used in research literature on leisure time. The data for this article consisted of occupational therapy literature including 48 articles found through a search of the MEDLINE and PsychLIT databases for the period 1975-1989. The methods used for identifying and coding these data based on a set of questions presented by Guba and Lincoln (1985).

Characterization of a major antigenic region on gp55 of human cytomegalovirus.

A major antigenic region localized to the C-terminal part of the 55K glycoprotein of human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) was mapped using synthetic peptides. Analysis of the region with six sera from healthy anti-HCMV seropositive blood donors showed that the length of the reactive sequence varied between four and eight amino acids (aa). The shortest sequence recognized was VTSG (aa 798 to 801 of the 130K precursor protein), but most sera required the three or four residues C-terminal to this to react, giving a major site of VTSGSTKD (aa 798 to 805).

High-pass resolution perimetry in uncomplicated myopia.

Fifteen subjects (28 eyes) with uncomplicated myopia (3-9 D) were examined using high-pass resolution and Goldmann perimetry. In the central 30 degree field a slight increase was observed in mean resolution threshold significantly correlated to the degree of myopia. In the Goldmann visual fields threshold increase was observed in the area around the blind spot in eight subjects (10 eyes).

Influence of amblyopia on high-pass resolution perimetry.

Seventeen subjects with amblyopia due to strabismus and anisometropia were examined using high-pass resolution perimetry. In addition to the standard technique, testing the 5-30 degrees visual field, an optional program testing the central 4 degrees visual field was used. Threshold elevation was confined to the central 4 degrees visual field and strongly correlated with visual acuity, expressed as minimum angle of resolution.

Individualized adaptation of clothes for impaired persons. A comparison of two groups with and without experience of adapted clothes.

Impaired persons often have difficulties in obtaining suitable clothing. Questionnaires on this subject were sent to a consecutive series of impaired persons. Group 1 (n = 50) had received adapted clothes and group 2 (n = 81) had not.