DETERMINING THE FACTORS THAT AFFECT REHABILITATION*

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Abstract
A study was made to determine whether progress in physical therapy and psychological status are related to the following factors: diagnosis, sex, age, average number of treatments per week, length of hospital stay, and aphasia. Two eight‐week cross sections of data on patients with hemiplegia, paraplegia, quadriplegia, bilateral leg amputation, and hip fracture were analyzed statistically. The first cross section involved 123 patients (age range, 17 to 89) and the second cross section, 88 patients (age range, 17 to 90).Factors related to progress in physical therapy were: the average number of treatments (improved patients received more), length of hospital stay (longer for the improved patients), psychological status (better in the improved patients), and possibly age (improved patients were younger). Younger patients also had a better psychological status, and patients having a better psychological status received more treatments and had been in the hospital longer. Aphasic patients had a poorer psychological status than did those without aphasia.

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