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OBJECTIVE: To explore whether persons with right- and left-sided cerebrovascular
accidents differ significantly in mean impact of neurobehavioural impairments on
ability to perform activities of daily living.
SUBJECTS: Retrospective
study of data from 215 persons (103 right-sided, 112 left-sided cerebrovascular
accident). The Activities of daily living-focused Occupation-based
Neurobehavioral Evaluation was used to evaluate ability on an activities of daily
living scale and the impact of neurobehavioural impairment on ability on another
scale. METHODS: To control for possible differences in activities of daily living
ability between groups, analysis of covariance, with activities of daily living
ability as a covariate, was used to test for a significant difference in impact
of neurobehavioural impairments on activities of daily living ability between
groups. RESULTS: Expected moderate correlation (r = -0.57) was obtained between
activities of daily living ability and neurobehavioural impact measures, and
there was no difference in mean neurobehavioural impact measures between groups
(F [1, 212] = 2.910, p = 0.090). CONCLUSION:
This study is the first to explore
directly the impact of neurobehavioural impairment on activities of daily living
ability. While persons with right-sided and left-sided cerebrovascular accidents
may differ in type of neurobehavioural impairments, direct evaluation of the
impact of such impairments on activities of daily living ability reveals no
difference between groups.

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