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HTA42 The Budget Impact Analysis of Acute Stroke Centre Expansion in Ministry of Health Malaysia
This study aimed to assess the budget impact analysis of expanding acute stroke services/centres in the public healthcare setting in Malaysia. The number of hospitalized stroke cases in the next five years is projected from the latest national stroke registry.
Source: Value in Health - June 26, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: S Thanimalai, YV Yong, I Looi, WC Law, Aziz Z Abdul Source Type: research

Cross-cultural adaptation and reliability of the Home Falls and Accidents Screening Tool (HOME FAST) in assessing fall-risk home hazards for stroke using technologies over a conventional home visit - Ahmad Ainuddin H, Romli MH, Hamid TA, Salim MSF, Mat Din H, Mackenzie L.
This study is aimed at translating the Home Falls and Accidents Screening Tool (HOME FAST) into the three main languages spoken in Malaysia and investigating its reliability through an alternative technology-based evaluation. METHODS: Tr...
Source: SafetyLit - April 4, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Elder Adults Source Type: news

Health-related quality of life profiles and their dimension-specific associated factors among Malaysian stroke survivors: a cross sectional study
Apart from maximizing functional abilities and independence after stroke, improving overall health-related quality of life (HRQoL) should also become part of the stroke treatment and rehabilitation process goa...
Source: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes - August 30, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Hui Jie Wong, Pei Lin Lua, Sakinah Harith and Khairul Azmi Ibrahim Tags: Research Source Type: research

Risk factors related with high sodium intake among Malaysian adults: findings from the Malaysian Community Salt Survey (MyCoSS) 2017-2018
CONCLUSION: Adults who are obese, have a large waist circumference, of male gender, living in urban areas, and belonging to the young adult age group were found to have higher sodium intake than other demographic groups. Hence, reduction of salt consumption among these high-risk groups should be emphasised to reduce the risk of cardiovascular diseases.PMID:34059146 | DOI:10.1186/s41043-021-00233-2
Source: Journal of Health, Population, and Nutrition - June 1, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Nur Shahida Abdul Aziz Rashidah Ambak Fatimah Othman Feng J He Muslimah Yusof Faizah Paiwai Suhaila Abdul Ghaffar Muhammad Fadhli Mohd Yusof Siew Man Cheong Graham MacGregor Tahir Aris Source Type: research

An exploratory qualitative study with older Malaysian stroke survivors, caregivers, and healthcare practitioners about falls and rehabilitation for falls after stroke - Ahmad Ainuddin H, Romli MH, Hamid TA, Sf Salim M, Mackenzie L.
BACKGROUND: Studies on rehabilitation for falls after a stroke remain limited despite its impact being profound. This scenario justifies a deeper understanding of why falls in stroke rehabilitation received less attention. Current investigations on the per...
Source: SafetyLit - May 17, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Ergonomics, Human Factors, Anthropometrics, Physiology Source Type: news

Understanding Cognitive Impairment after Stroke: Stories from a Middle-Income Country
This study presents findings from a community of Malaysian-Chinese stroke survivors living in Malaysia on their understandings of cognitive deficits after stroke. The way stroke survivors thought about CI was also mediated by the cultural and social context that surrounded them. Of interest was the primacy of physical health over the cognitive which resulted in the invisibility of CI within this community, regardless of whether the deficits were mild or severe. Based on these findings, there is a need to rethink how cognitive decline should be observed in realistic community settings.
Source: Journal of Population Ageing - June 10, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research

Factors of Health Promotion Behaviour (HPB) and Elderly Health Diseases in Malaysia
This study, therefore, is to investigate the effect of factors of HPB on elderly health disease in Malaysia. The factors of HPB are measured in 6 aspects, namely, healthy eating, exercise, stress management, interpersonal relations, health responsibility and spiritual growth. A set of 520 survey questionnaires was distributed and collected from respondents located in Perak, Malacca, Penang and Selangor. The statistical analysis result is analysed by using SmartPLS Software 3.0. The data analysis implicated that, elderly health disease is significantly affected by the factors of HPB (healthy eating, exercise, Interpersonal ...
Source: Journal of Population Ageing - June 2, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research

Exploring stroke survivors & rsquo; self-efficacy in understanding and taking medication and determining associated factors: a cross-sectional study in a neurology clinic in Malaysia
Source: Patient Preference and Adherence - August 27, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Patient Preference and Adherence Source Type: research