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Understandings stroke in rural Malaysia: ethnographic insights.
Conclusion: Lack of knowledge about stroke and its symptoms was evident in participants' account. Findings emphasize the importance of knowledge based health interventions, especially in health education strategies for stroke survivors to reduce delays to diagnosis and potentially improve health outcomes post-stroke. Implications for rehabilitation Stroke survivors often form explanatory models of stroke that draw from both biomedical and traditional explanations of stroke. Understanding how people derive lay understandings of stroke can contribute towards developing the goals and activities that facilitate recovery and re...
Source: Disability and Rehabilitation - June 5, 2019 Category: Rehabilitation Authors: Yap KH, Warren N, Allotey P, Reidpath DD Tags: Disabil Rehabil Source Type: research

Contextual factors that shape recovery after stroke in Malaysia.
CONCLUSION: The identification of factors that facilitate the recovery process provides a background in which health care providers can utilise to improve their understanding of the stroke experience. Such understanding could be instrumental in aiding health professionals to offer the most effective help to their clients. Implications for rehabilitation Identification of contextual factors provides a background for the understanding of the stroke experience. Incorporation of religion into rehabilitation could support and maintain hope in recovery for the survivors and aid acceptance. A collaboration of healthcare professio...
Source: Disability and Rehabilitation - April 4, 2019 Category: Rehabilitation Authors: Mairami FF, Warren N, Allotey PA, Reidpath DD Tags: Disabil Rehabil Source Type: research

Documenting the impact of stroke in a middle-income country: a Malaysian case study.
CONCLUSION: In LMIC, recovery can be shaped by the family unit and through active coping strategies especially those in relation to spirituality. Implications for rehabilitation The impact of stroke on survivors and lack of specialized stroke care compromise the recovery process and quality of life for stroke survivors in low and middle-income countries. Support from the family and reinforcement of religious coping were judged to successfully aid recovery. Physical and emotional impairments as well as psychosocial wellbeing of survivors in the context of environmental factors need to be addressed. PMID: 30183424 [PubM...
Source: Disability and Rehabilitation - September 5, 2018 Category: Rehabilitation Authors: Mairami FF, Warren N, Allotey PA, Mak JS, Reidpath DD Tags: Disabil Rehabil Source Type: research

Adaptive invention: independence and mobility through modifications.
CONCLUSIONS: Stroke recovery involves adapting to new limitations and discovering the support necessary to live life. These changes are influenced by a range of environmental factors. Healthcare professionals need to support stroke patients in identifying challenges and work to find innovative ways to address them. Stroke survivors may benefit from the use of an assistive device beyond its clinical function to participate purposefully in activities of daily living. Implications for Rehabilitation Stroke is a cause of disability that limits everyday activities and reduces social participation. Assistive devices help achieve...
Source: Disability and Rehabilitation. Assistive Technology. - August 24, 2017 Category: Rehabilitation Authors: Mairami FF, Allotey P, Warren N, Mak JS, Reidpath DD Tags: Disabil Rehabil Assist Technol Source Type: research