Abstract
The objective of this study was to investigate using the time study method, with users of day care services provided for hemiplegic stroke patients as subjects, conditions within the facility from the perspectives of amount of physical activity as well as maintaining and improving time spent on it. The subjects were 36 (18 male, 18 female) users of day care services provided for hemiplegic stroke patients. For the time study method, subjects' activities were recorded on a one minute basis from arrival until the conclusion of their services within the facility. Activity times were classified into 7 items, care by a physical therapist, independent exercising, rehabilitation care by staff other than physical therapists, leisure, resting, living activities, and others, and calculated as percentages of the whole time of facility use. The results showed that subjects' physical activity time within the facility was short, and there was a declining trend for this time with the degree of care required. From this result, we consider that there is a need to offer services giving longer periods of physical activity within the facility in day care service.
