effect of social rewards on stroke rehabilitation

2018 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K12578
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Rehabilitation science/Welfare engineering
• Research Institution: Hamamatsu University School of Medicine
• Principal Investigator: Tanaka satoshi 浜松医科大学, 医学部, 准教授 (10545867)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2019-03-31
• Keywords: 心理学 / リハビリテーション / 動機づけ / 脳卒中

Outline of Final Research Achievements

We examined whether the social reward enhances an intrinsic motivation for the rehabilitation of stroke patients. Stroke patients performed a lower limb exercise for 5 minutes. During the training, we prepared the following intervention conditions: (1) conditions for threpists to praise patients, (2) conditions to talk with them, and (3) conditions to watch them. The effect of these interventions on amount of a voluntary training was examined. The amount of voluntary training was significantly longer in the praise condition and talking condition than the watching condition. There were no significant differences between the praising and speaking conditions.

Free Research Field

心理学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

本研究成果は「褒めが患者のやる気を高めるか」という問いに対し科学的エビデンスを与えるものである。実際の臨床現場に即応用可能なエビデンスであり、その波及効果を踏まえれば臨床的意義は高い。患者の内発的動機づけに対する介入研究であり、学術的意義は高い。