We wanted 80% of stroke patients to have a completed ... and a 5-point Likert scale (1 = weak belief, 5 = strong belief) to measure staff nurse beliefs. Participants were encouraged to be open ...

The baseline NIH Stroke Scale score was a median 3.0. Over 70% of participants had been randomized on the later end of the eligibility window, in the 3-6 months after their index stroke.

Secondary outcomes included performance on a gait speed test, Barthel Index (BI), NIH Stroke Scale score (NIHSS), Fluid-attenuated inversion recovery (FLAIR) MRI, resting state fMRI and ...

Strokes were typed as cardioembolic in nearly 70% of cases. The patients had a median NIH Stroke Scale score of 15-16 at admission. Occlusion sites were in the M1 segment of the middle cerebral ...

The National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) is a well-validated, reliable scoring system for use specifically with stroke patients (Goldstein, Bertels, & Davis, 1989; Lyden et al., ...