This study aimed to apply care for stroke survivors by establishing trustable professional activities competency indicators and a trunk control care module for rehabilitation ward nurses during our second year.
Thus, the purposes of this study were: (1) to evaluate the effect of a stepwise nurse-led bedside trunk control care module intervention on improving trunk control, respiratory function, and quality of life in patients with stroke and (2) to modify and confirm the milestones and trustable professional activities of competence in trunk impairment care for patients with stroke to provide evidence-based nursing education and cultivate new nurses' competence in trunk injury care in the future.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
SINGLE
Enrollment
130
1. The intervention group underwent a 4-week bedside trunk control care module intervention based on routine care in a rehabilitation ward. 2. trunk control care module: combine the care strategies of "arm training, butterfly technique, shoulder control, diaphragmatic breathing" and "body awareness", practice twice a day, each time for 20-30 minutes, and can be adjusted according to the patient's condition.
Chung Shan Medical University
Taichung, Taiwan
Trunk function
Trunk Impairment Scale is used to assess patients' trunk function.
Time frame: Questionnaire were filled out three times, before the program intervention and at the two and fourth weeks following the intervention.
Postural control
Postural Assessment Scale for Stroke is used to assess patients' postural.
Time frame: Questionnaire were filled out three times, before the program intervention and at the two and fourth weeks following the intervention.
Respiratory function
Respiratory function was assessed by the technical staff in the rehabilitation ward. examination room
Time frame: Questionnaire were filled out three times, before the program intervention and at the two and fourth weeks following the intervention.
Body awareness
Body Awareness Questionnaire is used to assess patients' body awareness.
Time frame: Questionnaire were filled out three times, before the program intervention and at the two and fourth weeks following the intervention.
stroke impact
Stroke Impact Scale is used to assess patients' quality of life.
Time frame: Questionnaire were filled out three times, before the program intervention and at the two and fourth weeks following the intervention.
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