Literature Study: The Influence of Physical Activity on Changes in Cognitive Status of Post Stroke Patients

Introduction: The risk of cognitive function decline increases three times in stroke patient. The impaired cognitive function impacts psychological side, social isolation, economic, and decreasing the quality of living. Physical activities are believed to stimulate the nerve growth so that these activities can hinder cognitive function decline. Objectives: the objective of the study was to acknowledge the frequency, duration, and type of physical activities of cognitive status change of post-stroke patient. It is also to acknowledge the effect of physical activity toward the cognitive status change of post-stroke patient according to literature studies. Methods: Researcher uses literature study as research design with a sample of 13 journals, 6 journals of Pubmed, 2 journals of Proquest, 2 journals of Science Direct, and 3 journals of SAGE Journals. The steps of literature study of this research are problem identification, data collection, screening, main study quality assessment, data extraction, and data analysis. JBI Randomized Controlled Trial and Quasi Experimental are the tools used in study quality assessment. Results: Based on the result of the study of 13 journals shows that physical activity has significant effect toward cognitive status change of post-stroke patient with 5 times a week and 60 minutes duration of exercise. Conclusions: The study result of 13 journals shows that physical activity has significant effect toward the cognitive status change of post-stroke patient based on frequency, duration and types of physical activity.