J Korean Acad Adult Nurs.  2008 Aug;20(4):600-612.

Recovery State of Hemorrhagic Stroke Patients: Exploratory Comparison of Recovery State between Spontaneous Intracerebral Hemorrhage(s-ICH) and Spontaneous Subarachnoid Hemorrhage(s-SAH)

• Oh HS
• Seo WS
• Cho HY
• Kim MO
• Kim MR
• Mo J

Abstract

PURPOSE
This study was conducted to compare the recovery state of 6 month between s-ICH and s-SAH patients. The patients' recovery state was measured with 2 dimensions: functional and cognitive. METHODS: Non-experimental prospective design was adopted by including 108 hemorrhagic stroke patients(s-ICH: 52 vs s-SAH: 56) admitted to Intensive Care Unit of one university hospital. RESULTS: The study results showed that overall functional recovery state of s-SAH patients was better than that of s-ICH patients, and s-SAH patients also showed better recovery states in all of the sub-dimensions of functional recovery, such as feeding, grooming, and toileting, than those of s-ICH in 6 month. On the contrary, the study results showed that overall cognitive recovery states of 6 month between two groups were not significantly different. However, according to the results comparing the sub-dimensions of cognitive recovery, s-SAH patients' recovery states on attention, communication and memory were significantly better than those of s-ICH patients, while recovery states on problem solving, safety behavior, and social behavior between 2 groups were not significantly different. CONCLUSION: From the study results, it was noted that s-SAH patients showed better recovery states in cognitive dimension as well as in functional dimension compared with s-ICH patients.

Keyword

Stroke; Recovery; Cerebral hemorrhage; Subarachnoid hemorrhage

MeSH Terms

Animals
Cerebral Hemorrhage
Grooming
Humans
Intensive Care Units
Memory
Problem Solving
Prospective Studies
Social Behavior
Stroke
Subarachnoid Hemorrhage