Therapeutic effect of rehabilitation intervention in aged patients with vascular dementia
10.3969/j.issn.1008-0074.2016.01.07
- VernacularTitle:康复干预对老年血管性痴呆患者的疗效
- Author:
Zheng WEI
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Rehabilitation nursing;
Dementia,vascular;
Treatment outcomes
- From:
Chinese Journal of cardiovascular Rehabilitation Medicine
2016;25(1):25-28
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
Objective:To explore therapeutic effect of rehabilitation intervention on aged patients with vascular de‐mentia (VD) .Methods :A total of 108 aged VD patients hospitalized in our hospital from Jan 2011 to Oct 2013 were selected .According to random number table ,they were randomly and equally divided into routine treatment group (received routine drug therapy and nursing ) and rehabilitation intervention group [received rehabilitation interven‐tion based on routine treatment group ,including trainings of computing ability ,thinking ability ,memory and activi‐ty of daily life (ADL) ability etc .] .ADL ability score ,mini-mental state examination (MMSE) score ,Wechsler memory scale (WMS) score were assessed ,compared and analyzed between two groups before and one year after in‐tervention .Results:There were no significant difference in ADL ,MMSE and WMS scores before intervention be‐tween two groups (P>0.05) .Compared with before intervention after one -year intervention ,there were signifi‐cant rise in ADL ability score [ (36.87 ± 9.09) scores vs .(47.54 ± 9.72) scores] ,MMSE score [ (16.87 ± 3.55) scores vs .(22.25 ± 3.41) scores] and WMS score [(59.14 ± 6.84) scores vs .(62.88 ± 6.59) scores] in rehabilitation intervention group ( P<0.05 all) ,and they were significantly higher than those of routine treatment group [ADL score :(38.31 ± 8.95) scores ,MMSR score :(16.72 ± 4.25) scores ,WMS score :(59.25 ± 6.11) scores] ,P<0.05 all .Conclusion:Rehabilitation intervention can improve cognitive function and memory and improve self -care a‐bility and quality of life in aged VD patients ,so its therapeutic effect is significant .
