Santrauka:
Baigiamajame darbe supažindinama su ergoterapija asmenims, patyrusiems galvos smegenų insultą, taip pat kalbama apie kvapų suvokimo sutrikimus ir jų korekciją taikant ergoterapiją ir kvapų suvokimą lavinančias užduotis. Pristatomas Kvapų suvokimo sutrikimų testas, pateikiami tyrimo metu gauti rezultatai, išvados ir praktinės rekomendacijos.
Description:
Emilija Strimaitytė. Odour perception disorders and their correction with occupational therapy in patients after stroke. Final professional Bachelor's thesis. Scientific work supervisor Dr. Viktorija Repšaitė; Kaunas College, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Rehabilitation – Kaunas, 2018; 38 p.
Purpose
To evaluate the odour perception disorders and efficiency of their correction with occupational therapy in patients after stroke.
Tasks
1. To evaluate the cognition function and odour perception disorders before and after occupational therapy in patients after stroke.
2. To evaluate the cognition function and odour perception disorders before and after occupational therapy in patients after stroke and occupational therapy including tasks aimed at development of odour perception.
3. To compare the odour perception disorders in patients after stroke by applying occupational therapy and occupational therapy including the tasks aimed at development of odour perception.
Conclusions
1. Patients after stroke were diagnosed with mild disorder of cognition functions before the occupational therapy, and the cognition function disorders were eliminated after the occupational therapy. Before the occupational therapy, half of the patients could not distinguish more than 8 odours out of 16, after the occupational therapy – half of the persons distinguished 10 odours out of 16.
2. Patients after stroke were diagnosed with mild disorder of cognition functions before the occupational therapy, and after the occupational therapy including tasks developing odour perception the cognition function disorders were eliminated. Before the occupational therapy, half of the patients could not distinguish more than 8 odours out of 16, after the occupational therapy, by using the tasks promoting the development of odour perception, more than half of the persons distinguished from 12 to 14 odours.
3. We compared the odour perception disorders in persons after stroke and found that improvement in the odour perception among individuals after the occupational therapy including the tasks developing odour perception, compared to the occupational therapy alone.
