Fig 1.
Legend: Of a total stroke population of 1768), 1539 had complete UK FIM+FAM data and were included in the part 1 psychometric analysis; 1154 had been classified as left hemisphere (n = 588) or right hemisphere (n = 566) strokes and were included in the part 2 analysis.
Table 1.
Demographic characteristics for the various patient populations.
Table 2.
Principal component loadings after Varimax rotation.
Table 3.
Change in the UK FIM+FAM subscale scores from admission to discharge.
Fig 2.
Composite radar chart of median item scores on admission and discharge for the whole stroke population.
Legend: The radar chart (or “FAM splat”) provides a graphic representation of the disability profile from the data (n = 1539). Scale items are arranged as spokes of a wheel from 1 (total dependence) to 7 (total independence) run from the centre outwards. Thus a perfect score would be demonstrated as a large circle. This composite radar chart illustrates the median scores on admission and discharge. The shaded area thus represents the change in median score from admission to discharge.
Table 4.
Mean differences between left and right hemisphere strokes on admission.
Fig 3.
Composite radar chart of median item scores for Left and Right hemisphere strokes on admission.
This composite radar chart illustrates the median scores for Left and Right hemisphere strokes. Left Hemisphere scores are shown in red, while Right hemisphere strokes are shown in blue. Left-sided strokes had higher scores for some motor items but lower scores for communication and some cognitive items.
Table 5.
Item level differences between left and right strokes.