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Psychological status after stroke as measured by the hand test
Author(s) -
Wang Paul L.,
Smyers Penelope L.
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/1097-4679(197707)33:3<879::aid-jclp2270330357>3.0.co;2-0
Subject(s) - psychology , brain damage , stroke (engine) , insult , test (biology) , audiology , medicine , psychiatry , mechanical engineering , paleontology , linguistics , philosophy , engineering , biology
Forty‐two patients with recent cerebral vascular accidents (CVA) and 32 hospitalized patients without brain damage were administered the Hand Test. The CVA group consisted of 24 patients with right cerebral involvement, 10 patients with left cerebral involvement, and 8 patients with bilateral impairment. The mean age of the brain‐damaged group was 48.3 years. The Hand Test was administered from 0.5 month to 3 months after the insult in the CVA group, and 1 month to 4 years after the initial appearance of the chief complaint in the non‐brain‐damaged group. The median test was used to analyze the data. The brain‐damaged group showed less aggressive, more withdrawn behavior and have greater difficulty in dealing with reality. The high tendency of brain‐damaged patients to withdraw from reality can be viewed as a regressive process due to impaired cognitive functioning and emotional constriction.