Statistical and cross-sectional analysis of factors effecting the prevalence of pressure ulcer in hospital admitted stroke patients

Abstract

Every year, millions of people around the world are disabled by stroke, it is well recognized that complications aftera stroke extend hospital stays and pressure ulcers, a stroke consequence, which can be prevented by educating the caregiver. The primary focus of this research is not only to investigate the prevalence of pressure ulcers (PU) among stroke patients, but this study also introduced a variety of factors which influence the formation of PU, such as restricted mobility, gender, duration of stroke, hypertension, diabetes, hygiene, type of mattress, malnutrition, awareness, etc. In addition, this research provides a comparative and statistical analysis, a cause of the catastrophic disabilities influenced by a variety of factors. Moreover, the proposed research also provides a room for the pertinent treatment of stroke patient to curtail the formation of pressure ulcer. In this research, a total of 120 stroke patients were initially included to monitor the frequency of pressure ulcers at incipient stage. Out of the total patients, the number of patients with ischemic stroke were 78.5 % while 8.3 % were of haemorrhagic type. In the results, the demographic characteristics and the factors which influence the formation of PU of the patients were examined with their cross-sectional impact on each other through comparative and statistical analysis. It was discovered that among all the stroke patients, 8.3 % were found with a PUs and the most frequent localization was sacrum and no new PU was observed for the participants under the observation.