The aim was to determine the handicap experienced by subjects one year after a stroke, and assess the acceptability, validity, and reliability of a new handicap measurement scale. A cross sectional survey of 141 survivors of a cohort of consecutive hospital admissions with acute stroke was undertaken. The London handicap scale (a new health outcome measurement scale), Barthel index, Nottingham ...

Les enjeux philosophiques d’un droit à l’intimité. Un article de la revue Développement Humain, Handicap et Changement Social / Human Development, Disability, and Change (Sexualités, handicap droits humains) diffusée par plateforme Érudit.

introduction: the dysphagia handicap index (dhi) is one of the instruments used for measuring a dysphagic patient’s self-assessment. in some ways, it reflects the patient’s quality of life. although it has been recognized and widely applied in english speaking populations, it has not been used in its present forms in persian speaking countries. the purpose of this study was to adapt a persian v...

The virtual hand illusion (VHI) paradigm demonstrates that people tend to perceive agency and bodily ownership for a virtual hand that moves in synchrony with their own movements. Given that this kind of effect can be taken to reflect self-other integration (i.e., the integration of some external, novel event into the representation of oneself), and given that self-other integration has been pr...

Cette recension présente en miroir deux ouvrages parus 2020 sur les représentations du handicap dans l’espace francophone. Issus de réseaux scientifiques différents, ils s’inscrivent une approche mêlant disability studies et mise oeuvre d’une société inclusive. note lecture s’intéressera plus particulièrement aux contributions intégrant investigation croisement catégories d’appartenance réelle ...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Stroke, a major health issue affecting the elderly, limits their participation in society. The aim of this study was to investigate changes in stroke survivors' handicap levels and to identify their determinants in the subacute phase from 3 months to 1 year. METHODS Data were collected from a prospective cohort of 303 Chinese stroke survivors with the use of questionnai...

Sexualité, handicap et médias : un exemple québécois de ce qu’il ne faut pas faire. Un article la revue Développement Humain, Handicap Changement Social / Human Development, Disability, and Change (Sexualités, droits humains) diffusée par plateforme Érudit.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Knowledge of patterns of handicap after stroke and of the relationship among handicap, disability, perception of recovery, and stroke subtype is limited. The aim of this study was to assess handicap 3 and 12 months after first-ever stroke in a community-based study. METHODS All strokes occurring in a population of 133 816 people were found and assessed. Patients were cl...

BACKGROUND While several studies have investigated the presence and annoyance of tinnitus in cochlear implant (CI) recipients, few studies have probed the handicap experienced in association with tinnitus in this population. PURPOSE The aim of this study was to use validated self-report measures in a consecutive sample of CI patients who reported tinnitus in order to determine the extent of t...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Handicap, although more relevant to the patient than impairment or disability, has received little attention in people with stroke. The aim of this study was to identify, in an unselected population, factors determining handicap at 2 years after stroke. METHODS All first-ever cases of stroke in a population of 306 631 over a 1-year period were assessed. Stroke severity,...