Community Integration in Long Term Stroke Survivors
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description: The aim of the current study is to examine the level of community integration in a cohort of long-term four-year stroke survivors with the objective of understanding what factors at baseline can affect low levels of community integration. Stroke, an acute neurological deficit lasting more than 24 hours, is one of the most preventable diseases globally, with around 85% of strokes able to be prevented each year. It causes around six million deaths per year and in New Zealand, has the highest stroke prevalence rate than any other high-income country. Rehabilitation post stroke is extremely important to ensure an individual has the best chance of recovery, as around 40 percent of individuals experience some form of disability. Community integration is an important area of rehabilitation to ensure it is possible for individuals to integrate back into the community as well as possible. Community integration can be a struggle for individuals who have suffered from a stroke as there are major changes within their lives that they must navigate. There are different factors that current research has found to affect community integration levels such as good levels of social support, mobility levels and confidence yet there is still a limited number of studies that look at the long term impact of community integration on stroke and what baseline factors are related to levels of community integration. This quantitative study used previously collected data from a follow-up of participants who consented into the fourth Auckland Regional Community Outcomes Stroke study. It analysed data from 255 participants over 16 years of age living in Auckland, New Zealand. The data were collected using questionnaires at baseline and /or within two weeks after stroke and then again four years later. The community integration questionnaire, a psychometric tool used to measure community integration, was used to examine the level of community integration and was used with the baseline factors to un…
abstract: The aim of the current study is to examine the level of community integration in a cohort of long-term four-year stroke survivors with the objective of understanding what factors at baseline can affect low levels of community integration. Stroke, an acute neurological deficit lasting more than 24 hours, is one of the most preventable diseases globally, with around 85% of strokes able to be prevented each year. It causes around six million deaths per year and in New Zealand, has the highest stroke prevalence rate than any other high-income country. Rehabilitation post stroke is extremely important to ensure an individual has the best chance of recovery, as around 40 percent of individuals experience some form of disability. Community integration is an important area of rehabilitation to ensure it is possible for individuals to integrate back into the community as well as possible. Community integration can be a struggle for individuals who have suffered from a stroke as there are major changes within their lives that they must navigate. There are different factors that current research has found to affect community integration levels such as good levels of social support, mobility levels and confidence yet there is still a limited number of studies that look at the long term impact of community integration on stroke and what baseline factors are related to levels of community integration. This quantitative study used previously collected data from a follow-up of participants who consented into the fourth Auckland Regional Community Outcomes Stroke study. It analysed data from 255 participants over 16 years of age living in Auckland, New Zealand. The data were collected using questionnaires at baseline and /or within two weeks after stroke and then again four years later. The community integration questionnaire, a psychometric tool used to measure community integration, was used to examine the level of community integration and was used with the baseline factors to un…
author: Dyke, Isabella
keywords: Stroke, Community integration, ARCOS, New Zealand
date published: 2019
date modified: 2026-07-27T18:45:59Z
provider: AUT University
publisher: Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
type: WebPage
source organization: AUT University