Bedridden Patients' Sitting Protocol

Twenty patients who were hospitalized and treated in an acute care hospital between May and October 2018 participated in this study. The inclusion criteria were as follows: Being older, requiring nursing care, and having an FIM motor score of <20 points; Having cerebrovascular disease as the leading cause of a bedridden state (at least 6 months have passed since the onset of the disease); Not having chronic respiratory failure or chronic heart failure; Not having a fever (temperature <37.5°C) and having a stable medical condition; Having <14 hours of sitting time in a wheelchair per week^{[11 (link)]}; and; Having rehabilitation prescribed by a physician and having practiced sitting on the edge of a bed for at least 10 minutes with a physical therapist or others, during which the vital signs remained stable.