Interaction of the Ability of Planned Behavior and Motor Functioning of Patients after Stroke
Keywords:
stroke, executive function, motor skills, walkAbstract
Planning and organizing activities, as well as the ability to specify the strategies by which the intentions would be implemented and the aim accomplished represent the highest level of frontal lobes functioning and is comparable to the concept of metacognition. Preservation of executive function may be important for motor function of patients after a stroke. Aim of the paper is to determine whether the ability to plan behavior in patients after a stroke is preserved, associated with the quality of motor functioning. The sample consisted of 100 subjects, 50 patients after a stroke involved in the process of rehabilitation and 50 patients randomly chosen , matched by age and general characteristics, which in its medical history and neurological examination had no symptoms of acute or chronic neurological disease. For the evaluation of this variable the following tests were used: WCST Wisconsin Card Sorting Test for assessing executive functions; FAC Functional Ambulation Category test for assessing the quality of movement and performance of motor tasks, including spatial and temporal parameters of walk. The obtained results show the statistically significant difference between the tested patients after a stroke and patients without neurological damage in the area of planned behavior (p < .001 ), as well as in the area of ??motor skills including parameters of walk (p < .001 ).
Having in mind the results of this study it can be concluded that there is a significant link between low effective ability to plan behavior with mild quality of movement, worse performance of motor tasks and low values ??of the estimated parameters of walk.
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