The Influences of the Quality of Sleep of the Chronic Stroke Patients on the Cognitive Function, the Motivation for the Rehabilitation, and the Capability to Carry Out the Everyday Life.

Abstract

Regarding the stroke, as an illness of the central nervous system that causes the functional disorder because the blood does not get smoothly supplied to the brain tissues because of the ischemia and the bleeding of the brain blood vessels, it has been known that the disorder that takes place after the occurrence of the stroke generally appears in the complex forms in relation to the exercise and cognition functions, including the hemiplegia, the sensory disorder, the language disorder, the memory disorder, etc. (Kim, 2015; Prange, Jannink, Groothuis-udshoorn, Hermans, & IJzerman, 2006; Zwecker et al., 2002). It has been known that, generally, regarding such stroke patients, due to the problems that were mentioned earlier, among them, the everyday life activities of 25.0%~74.0% become reliant. (Miller, et al., 2010). Such reliant, everyday life activities can cause a lot of the problems. Kim, Kang, Kim, Wang, and Chang (2006) reported that, in case the everyday life activities which cannot be Correspondence: juhyungi79@hanmail.net, +82-10-7751-7238 298 Daesung-ro, Cheongwon-gu, Cheongju 363-764, Republic of Korea Received: 12 April 2019 Accepted: 10 August 2019