Are Contents of Physical Therapy in Nine Japanese Hospitals for Inpatients with Stroke Related to Inpatients’ and Physical Therapists’ Characteristics?

摘要: [Purpose] This study investigated the factors that influence activities provided during physical therapy for stroke. [Subjects] Data were collected from 85 therapists and 216 inpatients with [Methods] Time spent on specific functional to stroke was recorded at nine rehabilitation facilities. These used as dependent variables. Physical therapists' characteristics, including years since acquiring a license, gender, treatment concepts influencing stroke, recorded. Inpatients' age, affected side, days post score Modified Rankin Scale (mRS), gait ability measured by Functional Independence Measure (FIM gait), also inpatients' characteristics independent The t-test, correlation coefficients, analysis of covariance investigate which variables correlated [Results] Pre-gait, advanced gait, community mobility significantly mRS FIM (|rs| = 0.32-0.62). other had weak characteristics. no or few correlations [Conclusion] Relationships between time weaker than those includes many factors.