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Application of hurdle model with random effects for evaluating the balance improvement in stroke patients

Background: Stroke is a prevalent cause of disability in adults. The fall is the most common balance and motor impairments, which affects the quality of life in stroke patients. This study aims to employ random effects hurdle model for evaluating the balance improvement in stroke patients under the...

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Autores principales: Akbarzadeh Baghban, Alireza, Ahmadi Gooraji, Somayeh, Kavousi, Amir, Mirzakhani Araghi, Navid
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Iran University of Medical Sciences 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4715396/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26793635
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author Akbarzadeh Baghban, Alireza
Ahmadi Gooraji, Somayeh
Kavousi, Amir
Mirzakhani Araghi, Navid
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description Background: Stroke is a prevalent cause of disability in adults. The fall is the most common balance and motor impairments, which affects the quality of life in stroke patients. This study aims to employ random effects hurdle model for evaluating the balance improvement in stroke patients under the occupational therapy. Methods: In this longitudinal study with repeated measurement during one year between 2013 and 2014, the data was collected using non-random sampling method from three occupational therapy clinics. For a total of 38 stroke patients, the number of falls was recorded every two weeks. The random effects hurdle model and random effects zero inflated Poisson (ZIP) model were fitted to the data and were compared together. Data analysis was carried out using SAS Software version 9.2. Results: The results of random effects ZIP model showed that the covariates of sex and age and affected side of stroke and follow up duration had statistically significant effect on balance improvement (p< 0.05). The occupational therapy has been effective on balance improvement more than 40% during one year. Conclusion: The ZIP model with random effects can capture zero inflation and correlation structure in longitudinal count data simultaneously. Older patients, women and patients with left-side impairments were more at risk of fall and balance impairment, so they need more care and therapy.
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spelling pubmed-47153962016-01-20 Application of hurdle model with random effects for evaluating the balance improvement in stroke patients Akbarzadeh Baghban, Alireza Ahmadi Gooraji, Somayeh Kavousi, Amir Mirzakhani Araghi, Navid Med J Islam Repub Iran Original Article Background: Stroke is a prevalent cause of disability in adults. The fall is the most common balance and motor impairments, which affects the quality of life in stroke patients. This study aims to employ random effects hurdle model for evaluating the balance improvement in stroke patients under the occupational therapy. Methods: In this longitudinal study with repeated measurement during one year between 2013 and 2014, the data was collected using non-random sampling method from three occupational therapy clinics. For a total of 38 stroke patients, the number of falls was recorded every two weeks. The random effects hurdle model and random effects zero inflated Poisson (ZIP) model were fitted to the data and were compared together. Data analysis was carried out using SAS Software version 9.2. Results: The results of random effects ZIP model showed that the covariates of sex and age and affected side of stroke and follow up duration had statistically significant effect on balance improvement (p< 0.05). The occupational therapy has been effective on balance improvement more than 40% during one year. Conclusion: The ZIP model with random effects can capture zero inflation and correlation structure in longitudinal count data simultaneously. Older patients, women and patients with left-side impairments were more at risk of fall and balance impairment, so they need more care and therapy. Iran University of Medical Sciences 2015-08-10 /pmc/articles/PMC4715396/ /pubmed/26793635 Text en © 2015 Iran University of Medical Sciences http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial 3.0 License (CC BY-NC 3.0), which allows users to read, copy, distribute and make derivative works for non-commercial purposes from the material, as long as the author of the original work is cited properly.
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26793635
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