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July 20, 2026American Journal of Occupational Therapy

The Effectiveness of Rehabilitation Interventions on Improving Leisure Participation Following Stroke: A Systematic Review

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SASerena Alves-SteinNLNatasha A. LanninSKSharon Kramer

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Systematic review demonstrates leisure rehabilitation improves participation in stroke survivors, suggesting further research is needed.

Key Points

  • The aim is to investigate how effective rehabilitation interventions are in increasing leisure participation among stroke survivors.
  • Systematic review of randomized and nonrandomized controlled trials
  • Studies assessed included a measure of leisure participation from various databases
  • Meta-analysis of four studies and narrative synthesis of another four studies
  • Leisure participation increased in intervention groups compared to controls (standardized mean difference = 0.80, 95% CI 0.03 to 1.56)
  • Evidence was of low certainty due to high heterogeneity and small number of studies
  • Subgroup analysis suggested benefits from earlier intervention poststroke, increasing the number of activities but not regularity.

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Alves-Stein et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a5dba718bd453d3397ab9b1https://doi.org/10.1177/19437676261464109
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