Stroke Home Health Aide Recovery Program (SHARP) Pilot
- Conditions
- Stroke
- Interventions
- Behavioral: SHARP coach intervention
- Registration Number
- NCT04840407
- Lead Sponsor
- Visiting Nurse Service of New York
- Brief Summary
The project pilot tests an innovative Stroke Home health Aide Recovery Program (SHARP) designed to improve mobility and reduce falls in post-acute home bound stroke patients. SHARP will accomplish this by expanding the home-based rehabilitation team to include a corps of advanced HHAs specially trained as stroke "peer coaches." Coaches provide mentorship and support to generalist HHAs as they collaborate with patients and families to implement the therapeutic regimens prescribed by patients' physicians and rehabilitation therapists.
- Detailed Description
Purpose and Specific Aims This is a pilot to test the Stroke Home health Aide Recovery Program (SHARP) study design elements and procedures in preparation for a larger-scale study that would assess the effectiveness of the model to improve patient outcomes. The overall purpose of SHARP and of this research pilot is to improve patients' function following a stroke. SHARP is designed to improve mobility and reduce falls in post-acute homebound stroke patients by expanding the rehabilitation team to include SHARP Home Health Aides (HHAs) specially trained as stroke "peer coaches." The coaches will provide mentorship and support to direct care generalist HHAs. The direct care HHAs will already be working with patients and families on the exercise regimen prescribed by physicians and rehabilitation therapists.
Main aims are to:
1. Test recruitment and randomization procedures
2. Examine program acceptability
3. Assess intervention protocol implementation fidelity
4. Examine patient burden, and obtain preliminary estimates of variability/reliability/correlation over time of selected outcomes
Population and Intervention Potential candidates for the SHARP coach positions are drawn from recommendations of HHA field supervisors and from additional HHA volunteers. All must have already completed the Partners in Care health coach introductory program or the equivalent. Nominated candidates will be interviewed by Research and Partners in Care staff to select up to 10 HHA's to engage in SHARP coach training. After coach preparation, rehabilitation therapists are to help identify post-stroke patients who meet the initial pilot study eligibility criteria. A VNSNY Research Assistant reaches out to patients referred by the therapists to assess their interest and eligibility, to explain the intervention and terms of participation and, once patients agree to participate, to obtain their formal consent. After consent, patients are randomized to an intervention or control arm. SHARP coaches are deployed to help with post-stroke rehabilitation care for those randomized to the intervention arm. A total of 60 patients will be recruited - 30 for the intervention arm and 30 for the usual care arm.
Potential Significance The SHARP program that is being developed through this study has the potential to be a high impact approach to enhance home-based post-stroke rehabilitation and improve functional mobility and related outcomes among homebound post-stroke patients. This project represents foundational work for the development of a novel community based approach to enhance stroke recovery. By leveraging an existing infrastructure of paraprofessional care providers (the HHAs), this program may offer a practical and sustainable method for enhancing post-acute care of stroke patients during the critical transition phase from hospital/rehab center to home, and provide a framework for a new cadre of advanced, specialty HHAs. Qualitative and quantitative data derived from this pilot will inform feasibility, study procedures and effect sizes for a larger randomized trial assessing the impact of the SHARP coaching on patient outcomes.
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- COMPLETED
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 60
- 18 years of age or older
- English Speaking
- Receiving home health rehabilitation services
- Receiving HHA services
- No diagnosis of Alzheimer's or Dementia
- Experienced a stroke within 90 days of start of home care services
- Mobility is impaired but requires no or only minimal assistance and has rehabilitation potential
- Was able to walk independently or with assistance pre-stroke
- Unable to provide informed consent
Study & Design
- Study Type
- INTERVENTIONAL
- Study Design
- SINGLE_GROUP
- Arm && Interventions
Group Intervention Description SHARP coach arm SHARP coach intervention The SHARP Peer Coach supports the direct care HHA and indirectly support the patient/family caregiver to enhance the patient's post-stroke recovery through two main pathways: 1) culturally sensitive, patient-centered reinforcement of rehabilitation regimens (prescribed physical/occupational exercises/training); and 2) early recognition and reporting of barriers to the rehabilitation therapist regarding adherence and recovery, including: a) environmental obstacles, b) family-related issues, c) psychological/clinical barriers (e.g., depression/anxiety).
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Evaluate SHARP recruitment and randomization procedures 20 months Examine ability to recruit and orient home health aides to be SHARP coaches; evaluate ability to identify and enroll the patient group of interest
Assess SHARP program acceptability to coaches/HHAs/patients 30 minutes Examination of participant experience and satisfaction with the SHARP program
Assess SHARP implementation fidelity 15 months Monitoring of all workflows and planned intervention activities to determine fidelity to the protocol and adjustments that may be needed in a future trial
Examine selected covariates and primary and secondary outcome measures for a subsequent larger scale study of SHARP effectiveness 60 days Examination of patient burden and evaluation preliminary estimates of variability, reliability, and correlation of clinical evaluation measures
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method
Trial Locations
- Locations (1)
Visiting Nurse Service of New York
🇺🇸New York, New York, United States