Higher Brain Function Research
Online ISSN : 1880-6716
Print ISSN : 0285-9513
ISSN-L : 0285-9513
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Follow-up Study on Occupational Prognosis for Aphasics
Hitomi SatoTakashi EndoToshio HosakaTsuneo Hasegawa
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1987 Volume 7 Issue 1 Pages 1-9

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     In 1984, we conducted a follow-up study by questionnaire on 479 aphasic patients who had received initial speech therapy in 1981 at 85 hospitals throughout Japan.
    The purposes of this study were : 1) to clarify the rate of aphasic cases who reached occupational return, and 2) to analyze which factor had the main or chief effect on their occupational return among 17 factors by Hayashi quantification method type II (categorical discriminant analysis).
    The main results were as follows :
    1) Of the 479 aphasics, 61 (12.7%) worked 3 years after initial speech therapy. These cases were among to 344 aphasics who had held jobs before the stroke. The rate of occupational return was 17.7 %.
    2) Among the 61 aphasics who returned to work, 19 cases (31.1 %) were assigned to different jobs and 5 cases (8.2 %) changed their employment.
    3) Among the 17 factors examined, hand function showed the strongest effect on occupational return. Next strongest was the duration of treatment. Time lapse before the beginning of treatment ranked third. Speech output level also had a considerable effect.
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© 1987 by Japan Society for Higher Brain Dysfunction ( founded as Japanese Society of Aphasiology in 1977 )
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