TY - JOUR
T1 - Review physical rehabilitation programs for bedridden patients with prolonged immobility
T2 - a scoping review
AU - Cardoso, Remy
AU - Parola, Vitor
AU - Neves, Hugo
AU - Bernardes, Rafael A.
AU - Duque, Filipa Margarida
AU - Mendes, Carla A.
AU - Pimentel, Mónica
AU - Caetano, Pedro
AU - Petronilho, Fernando
AU - Albuquerque, Carlos
AU - Sousa, Liliana B.
AU - Malça, Cândida
AU - Durães, Rúben
AU - Xavier, William
AU - Parreira, Pedro
AU - Apóstolo, João
AU - Cruz, Arménio
N1 - Funding Information:
Funding: This research was co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) through the partnership agreement Portugal 2020—Operational Programme for Competitiveness and Internationalization (COMPETE2020) under the project POCI-01-0247-FEDER-047087 ABLEFIT: Desenvolvimento de um Sistema avançado para Reabilitação.
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PY - 2022/6/1
Y1 - 2022/6/1
N2 - Bedridden patients usually stay in bed for long periods, presenting several problems caused by immobility, leading to a long recovery process. Thus, identifying physical rehabilitation programs for bedridden patients with prolonged immobility requires urgent research. Therefore, this scoping review aimed to map existing physical rehabilitation programs for bedridden patients with prolonged immobility, the rehabilitation domains, the devices used, the parameters accessed, and the context in which these programs were performed. This scoping review, guided by the Joanna Briggs Institute’s (JBI) methodology and conducted in different databases (including grey literature), identi-fied 475 articles, of which 27 were included in this review. The observed contexts included research institutes, hospitals, rehabilitation units, nursing homes, long-term units, and palliative care units. Most of the programs were directed to the musculoskeletal domain, predominantly toward the lower limbs. The devices used included lower limb mobilization, electrical stimulation, inclined planes, and cycle ergometers. Most of the evaluated parameters were musculoskeletal, cardiorespiratory, or vital signs. The variability of the programs, domains, devices and parameters found in this scoping review revealed no uniformity, a consequence of the personalization and individualization of care, which makes the development of a standard intervention program challenging.
AB - Bedridden patients usually stay in bed for long periods, presenting several problems caused by immobility, leading to a long recovery process. Thus, identifying physical rehabilitation programs for bedridden patients with prolonged immobility requires urgent research. Therefore, this scoping review aimed to map existing physical rehabilitation programs for bedridden patients with prolonged immobility, the rehabilitation domains, the devices used, the parameters accessed, and the context in which these programs were performed. This scoping review, guided by the Joanna Briggs Institute’s (JBI) methodology and conducted in different databases (including grey literature), identi-fied 475 articles, of which 27 were included in this review. The observed contexts included research institutes, hospitals, rehabilitation units, nursing homes, long-term units, and palliative care units. Most of the programs were directed to the musculoskeletal domain, predominantly toward the lower limbs. The devices used included lower limb mobilization, electrical stimulation, inclined planes, and cycle ergometers. Most of the evaluated parameters were musculoskeletal, cardiorespiratory, or vital signs. The variability of the programs, domains, devices and parameters found in this scoping review revealed no uniformity, a consequence of the personalization and individualization of care, which makes the development of a standard intervention program challenging.
KW - Bedridden persons
KW - Programs
KW - Rehabilitation
KW - Rehabilitation exercise
KW - Review
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85130839196&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3390/ijerph19116420
DO - 10.3390/ijerph19116420
M3 - Article
C2 - 35682005
SN - 1661-7827
VL - 19
JO - International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
JF - International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
IS - 11
M1 - 6420
ER -