Nursing Care of Patients With Neurologic Issues
This article is about a research that compares people who have had strokes and the problems that they experience with eating, three months after their illness. Researchers elaborate on the challenges that stroke victims experience in their daily life, including problems with eating, taking care of their appearance, taking a bath, using the bathroom and their bodily functions with this respect, and moving from one place to another. One of the frequent consequences of stroke is the challenges experienced by victims while eating, and this is something common in the countries in Europe. However, there are insufficient studies on difficulties in feeding that are experienced by victims of strokes in the three months after their attacks. More insight is therefore required into how these difficulties with feeding develop so that the result of the stroke on the victim's ability to function socially can be examined. It will also aid in the giving of proper nursing care. Medin (2012) goes on to say that the knowledge currently available on the immediate eating challenges after the stroke indicate that there exists a gap in how the eating abilities of a stroke victim develop, and that is the gap that this study tries to address (Medin, 2012).
By reading this article, I learned that eating difficulties are the challenges that adversely affect the preparation as well as the consumption of food or drink. Some of these difficulties are experienced when the victim cannot maintain a proper siting position when he or she...
The victim may also lack sufficient strength to move the food from the plate to their mouth, to chew or to swallow.
In the months after the person has suffered a stroke, they may recover neurologically as well as in their ability to function in a period of a few months after the stroke. There have, however, been only a few studies that have dealt with the problems experienced with eating.
I found out that the study was a comparative longitudinal study. The study was conducted within a period of one year and three months, that is March 2007-June 2008. The stroke victims included in the study were 36 and the number of feeding challenges they had was between two and seven.
In order to identify these challenges, observation method was used through a structured procedure. Various scales were used to measure other factors, such as the Revised Oral Assessment Guide to measure oral status and the Barthel Index to measure the functional status.
The McNemar test was used to evaluate the oral status relating to meal tools used and the difference between the initial state and the state three months after the stroke. T-tests were made use of when comparing the nutritional status as well as the welfare of the patient psychologically. The study, in addition, made use of Wilcoxon signed-rank tests and these were done on the data that was availed. No incomplete data was used in the analysis except…
