Physiotherapy and Guillain--Barré syndrome: results of a national survey.
OBJECTIVE: To discover the extent to which persons with Guillain-Barré syndrome receive treatment by a physiotherapist (as inpatients and outpatients), and to assess whether the amount of treatment received is related to outcome. DESIGN: Survey method using self-administered questionnaires distribut...
| Publicado en: | Physiotherapy Vol. 95; no. 3; pp. 157 - 164 |
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| Formato: | research tables/charts Journal Article |
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Elsevier B.V.
Sep2009
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=105427964&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 105427964 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 00319406 4FU jtl: Physiotherapy issn: 00319406 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Sep2009 vid: 95 iid: 3 pid: 82545 pub: Elsevier B.V. place: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania artinfo: ui: 105427964 105427964 2010398579 10.1016/j.physio.2009.04.001 NLM19635334 105427964 ppf: 157 ppct: 7 formats: tig: atl: Physiotherapy and Guillain--Barré syndrome: results of a national survey. aug: au: Davidson I Wilson C Walton T Brissenden S affil: School of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK; ian.davidson@manchester.ac.uk sug: subj: Physical Therapy Polyradiculoneuritis Rehabilitation Aged Anxiety Chi Square Test Clinical Assessment Tools Depression Fatigue Female Funding Source Male Mann-Whitney U Test Middle Age Polyradiculoneuritis Complications Psychological Tests Questionnaires Recovery Scales Short Form-36 Health Survey (SF-36) Spearman's Rank Correlation Coefficient Surveys T-Tests Treatment Outcomes Human Aged: 65+ years Middle Aged: 45-64 years Female Male ab: OBJECTIVE: To discover the extent to which persons with Guillain-Barré syndrome receive treatment by a physiotherapist (as inpatients and outpatients), and to assess whether the amount of treatment received is related to outcome. DESIGN: Survey method using self-administered questionnaires distributed through a national database. PARTICIPANTS: Members of the Guillain-Barré Syndrome Support Group (n=1535). MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: General patient data, general mobility, F-score, Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale, Short Form-36 and Fatigue Severity Scale. RESULTS: In total, 884/1535 (58%) complete responses were received. Nearly 10% of respondents had not received treatment by a physiotherapist in hospital despite their average functional level being the same as respondents who had received treatment in hospital. One-quarter of respondents said that they had not received treatment following hospital discharge despite the identification of relatively high levels of disability. Those who did not receive treatment by a physiotherapist following discharge were less severely disabled. This may indicate that physiotherapists tend to offer treatment to more severely disabled patients. The majority of patients reported disabling fatigue; whilst not statistically related to receipt of treatment by a physiotherapist, this highlights the importance of assessing fatigue in treatment plans to improve physical functioning. CONCLUSION: Improvements to policy and practice can be made by widening inpatient accessibility to treatment by a physiotherapist and increasing outpatient provision of treatment for patients with Guillain-Barré syndrome of all degrees of severity. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: research tables/charts Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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