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Learning readiness for patient teaching in stroke rehabilitation
Author(s) -
Vanetzian Eleanor
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
journal of advanced nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.948
H-Index - 155
eISSN - 1365-2648
pISSN - 0309-2402
DOI - 10.1046/j.1365-2648.1997.t01-20-00999.x
Subject(s) - psychology , rehabilitation , independence (probability theory) , functional independence measure , perception , stroke (engine) , cognitive psychology , applied psychology , nursing , medical education , medicine , mechanical engineering , statistics , mathematics , neuroscience , engineering
Motivation and ability are attributes of learning readiness for patient teaching. Achievement motivation theory includes the assumption that the tendency to succeed in regaining functional losses due to stroke is related to patients' perceptions of how difficult activities will be to accomplish. Ability is assessed using the Functional Independence Measure. A framework is applied to a patient situation demonstrating that the tendency to succeed is greater when striving to achieve goals with an uncertain level of difficulty than when goals are either easy or hard. Implications for nursing and research are described.