Strong social support is related to shorter stay in inpatient rehab after hospitalization
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"When someone does not have the social support of family and friends, they take longer to return home to the community. We believe that support from loved ones may lead to better recovery and better quality of life," said lead author Zakkoyya Lewis, a doctoral student in UTMB's department of rehabilitation sciences. "Our study is one of the first to look at how level of social support impacts how long patients need to spend in a rehab facility."
Following certain injuries or surgeries such as a lower body joint replacement or fracture or when recovering following a stroke, patients are often sent to an inpatient rehabilitation facility, or IRF, before they return home.
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The study showed that having strong social support influences how long patients need to spend in rehab. Compared with patients who have strong support from family or friends, those with little social support were more likely to need extra time than predicted by
"Our findings provide new information to the growing body of evidence that inpatient rehabilitation experiences can be substantially impacted by a patient's level of social support," said coauthor
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