Preliminary study on activity monitoring for over 24 hours among stroke patients in a rehabilitation ward

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Matsuura H, Mukaino M, Ogasawara T, Aoshima Y, Suzuki T, Inukai A, Hattori E, Saitoh E. Preliminary study on activity monitoring for over 24 hours among stroke patients in a rehabilitation ward. Jpn J Compr Rehabil Sci 2019; 10: 37-41.

Objective: To clarify the effectiveness of rehabilitation, it is important to determine the degree of influence of the intervention on the amount of the patients' daily activity. The present study aimed to evaluate the possibility of monitoring changes in the amount of daily activity of stroke patients in a rehabilitation ward through the use of a wearable heart rate (HR) measurement system (hitoe system).

Methods: The present study included six stroke patients (four men and two women; mean age 63.5±11.22 years) from our institution's rehabilitation ward. We performed activity monitoring using the hitoe system for three days after admission and at the sixth week after admission.

Results: The lying-down time was lower and the exercise intensity integrated value was higher at the sixth week after admission than at admission (11.9±3.52 vs. 10.3±1.89 hours; p=0.06). Additionally, the duration of %HRR >30% was significantly greater at the sixth week than at admission (0.9±2.26% vs. 5.1±6.56%; p=0.03).

Conclusion: We successfully performed activity monitoring in inpatients using a wearable HR measurement system and found that daily activity tended to increase among the inpatients during rehabilitation.