Poststroke Fatigue and Daily Activity Patterns During Outpatient Rehabilitation: An Experience Sampling Method Study

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Objective: To advance our understanding of poststroke fatigue by investigating its momentary and time-lagged relationship with daily activities. Design: Longitudinal observational study using the experience sampling method (ESM). Setting: Outpatient rehabilitation care. Participants: Thirty individuals with stroke (NZ30). Interventions: Not applicable. Main Outcome Measures: ESM is a structured diary method that allows assessing real-time symptoms, behavior, and environment characteristics in the flow of daily life, thereby capturing moment-to-moment variations in fatigue and related factors. Using a mobile application, individuals with stroke were followed during 6 consecutive days, and were prompted at 10 random moments daily to fill in a digital questionnaire about their momentary fatigue and current activity: type of activity, perceived effort and enjoyment, and physical activity levels. Results: Based on all completed digital questionnaires (NZ1013), multilevel regression analyses showed that fatigue was significantly associated with type of activity and that fatigue was higher when participants had engaged in physical activity. Fatigue was also higher during activities perceived as more effortful and during less enjoyable activities. Time-lagged analyses showed that fatigue was also predicted by physical activity and perceived effort earlier during the day. Importantly, the relationship between these daily activity characteristics and fatigue differed substantially across individuals. Conclusions: This study illustrates the need for ESM to design personalized rehabilitation programs and to capture fatigue and other patient reported outcomes in daily life.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.34894/6XIHGK
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apmr.2019.12.014
Metadata Access https://dataverse.nl/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=doi:10.34894/6XIHGK
Provenance
Creator Lenaert, Bert ORCID logo; Neijmeijer, Mathea; van Kampen, Nadine; van Heugten, Caroline ORCID logo; Ponds, Rudolf ORCID logo
Publisher DataverseNL
Contributor faculty data manager FPN; Lenaert, Bert
Publication Year 2022
Rights info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess
OpenAccess false
Contact faculty data manager FPN (Maastricht University); Lenaert, Bert (Maastricht University)
Representation
Resource Type ESM data; Dataset
Format application/x-stata-13
Size 61196; 800150
Version 1.0
Discipline Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture, Aquaculture; Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture, Aquaculture and Veterinary Medicine; Life Sciences; Social Sciences; Social and Behavioural Sciences; Soil Sciences