TY  - JOUR
T1  - Knowledge and Opinion on Stroke Rehabilitation and Outcome among Stroke Patients in Bayelsa State, Nigeria
AU - Nzewi, Nneoma AU - Adika, Victor O. AU - Apiyanteide, Franco A. 
JO  - International Journal of Tropical Medicine
VL  - 6
IS  - 4
SP  - 90
EP  - 96
PY  - 2011
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1816-3319
DO  - ijtmed.2011.90.96
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=ijtmed.2011.90.96
KW  - nurses
KW  -opinion
KW  -knowledge
KW  -Rehabilitation
KW  -stroke
KW  -outcome
KW  -Bayelsa state
AB  - Stroke is the third major cause of death behind cancer and 
  heart diseases and leads to increased health burden of sensory and functional 
  disabilities in many survivors across all parts of the world. It is a recognized 
  fact that early rehabilitation is fundamental to the management of patients 
  with stroke. This study is thus aimed at assessing knowledge and opinion of 
  nurses on stroke patients’ rehabilitation as well as rehabilitation outcome 
  in Bayelsa state, Nigeria. A descriptive survey design was employed to determine 
  the knowledge and opinion of nurses on stroke patients’rehabilitation as well 
  as outcome with stroke patients in the state university teaching hospital. One 
  hundred nurses who gave their consent participated in the study. The nurses 
  respondents were made up of females 66 and 72% of them registered nurses having 
  some form of knowledge on stroke rehabilitation. Results reveal that 75% believed 
  that nurses have a role to play in stroke rehabilitation and 78% of the nurses 
  also acknowledged to a great extent that rehabilitation is a key component of 
  nursing management of stroke patients. The result further reveals that 80% of 
  nurses do not measure or assess outcome after stroke event before discharge 
  from the hospital. However, 98% were familiar with the use of Glasgow Coma scale 
  and not the Barthel index scale 1%. The study also recorded that educational 
  status was significant for knowledge of stroke rehabilitation (&chi;<SUP>2</SUP> 
  = 33.035, p = 0.01) and not significant for opinion (&chi;<SUP>2</SUP> = 19.457, 
  p = 0.25). However, there was significant difference between knowledge and opinion 
  on practices by nurses (&chi;<SUP>2</SUP> = 87.889, p = 0.00) at p&lt;0.05 
  for significance. Based on the findings, it could be concluded that majority 
  of nurses showed positive opinion that adequate rehabilitation leads to better 
  outcome although, more training on this issue should be intensified to reduce 
  the incidence of disability and morbidity associated with stroke.
ER  -