Prediction of outcome of physiotherapy in advanced XXXX .

@entity1 @entity303 @entity191
OBJECTIVE: Prediction of the effect of a home physiotherapy intervention on the basis of four clinical characteristics of @entity1 with advanced @entity191 . DESIGN: A repeated measures design comparing six weeks without treatment with six weeks of physiotherapy and a follow-up of 12 weeks. SUBJECTS: @entity1 with @entity191 without @entity303 and suffering from considerable functional disability. INTERVENTION: Community physiotherapists treated @entity1 in the home situation three times a week teaching cueing and conscious movement control for walking and carrying out transfers in and out of beds and chairs. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Mental status, disease severity, age and mood were included as predictor variables. A new functional scale developed as part of a previous study was used as the dependent variable administered in both the hospital and the home to determine whether the outcome generalized from the learning to a different environment. RESULTS: Only disease severity was a negative predictor of treatment outcome at home. In the hospital setting none of the factors predicted the immediate effect of treatment but cognitive ability and age were determinants of whether the treatment effects were maintained in the long term. CONCLUSIONS: Using cueing and cognitive strategies benefited younger and older @entity1 with @entity191 alike. However, the findings indicate targeting of treatment at @entity1 with milder disease severity and providing follow-up treatment for older and cognitively less able @entity1 .
