Smita Bakhai, Jacquelyn Jordan, Jennifer A Stoll
Strategies to Improve COVID-19 Vaccination in a Pregnant, Marginalized Population: Quality Improvement Project
American journal of public health
stroke emerging public health threat subsaharan african countries including ethiopia even though cognitive impairment increasingly recognized major cause disability among stroke survivors paucity information magnitude strokerelated cognitive dysfunction ethiopia thus assessed magnitude predictors poststroke cognitive impairment among ethiopian stroke survivors facilitybased crosssectional study employed assess magnitude predictor poststroke cognitive impairment among adult stroke survivors came followup least 3 months last stoke episode february june 2021 three outpatient neurology clinics addis ababa ethiopia used montreal cognitive assessment scalebasic mocab modified rankin scale mrs patient health questionnaire9 phq9 assess poststroke cognition functional recovery depression respectively data entered analyzed using spss software version 25 binary logistic regression model employed identify predictors poststroke cognitive impairment pvalue 005 considered statistically significant 79 stroke survivors approached 67 included mean sd age 521 127 years half 597 survivors males 672 urban residents median stroke duration 3 years ranging 1 4 years almost half 418 stroke survivors cognitive impairment increased age aor024 95 ci007083 lower education aor402 95 ci1131432 poor function recovery mrs 33 aor027 95 ci008081 predictors significantly associated poststroke cognitive impairment nearly one two stroke survivors cognitive impairment major predictors associated cognitive decline age 45 years low literacy poor recovery physical function although causality cannot inferred physical rehabilitation better education essential building cognitive resilience among stroke survivors