Evaluating the Feasibility of a Regaining Confidence After Stroke Course (RCAS) to Facilitate Adjustment for People With Stroke Discharged From Rehabilitation.
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 51
- 主要终点
- Number of participants who completed the trial
研究概览
简要总结
The Regaining Confidence after Stroke Course (RCAS) is a group therapy intervention to evaluate the feasibility of conducting a definitive trial, aimed to facilitate adjustment for people with stroke discharged from rehabilitation, compared with usual care. The study also aimed to evaluate the feasibility of improving mood and coping in carers of the course participants.
详细描述
The Regaining Confidence after Stroke Course (RCAS) is an is an eleven week group intervention that is designed to help stroke survivors when they have finished rehabilitation to improve confidence in daily life. This feasibility study aimed to evaluate the acceptability of the course in improving confidence, mood, adjustment and increasing activity levels in stroke survivors as well as improving mood and coping in their carers.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Treatment
- 盲法
- Single (Outcomes Assessor)
盲法说明
The outcome assessor was masked to the intervention until the outcomes were complete.
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 —（Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •A clinical diagnosis of stroke within two years
- •Discharged from all other rehabilitation therapies
- •Not involved in trials of other psychological interventions
- •Not previously attended an RCAS course
排除标准
- •Score of <10 on the Barthel Index (sufficiently independent to cope in a group setting)
- •Score <8 on the Sheffield Screening test for Acquired Language Disorders so that participants would be able to understand the materials being presented
- •Unable to speak English
- •Unable to give informed consent
研究组 & 干预措施
A group psycho-social course
The intervention group received a group psycho-social course, a 2 hour, weekly, eleven week intervention delivered by a health professional working in stroke and usual care.
干预措施: A group psychosocial course (Behavioral)
Control Group
Participants in the usual care control group will continue to receive all other services routinely available to them as is usual practice.
结局指标
主要结局
Number of participants who completed the trial
时间窗: End of Study
Number of participants who completed the trial
Number of participants recruited to the trial
时间窗: One year recruitment period
Number of participants recruited to the trial
次要结局
- Mood(Baseline, 3 and 6 months follow up)
- Activity(Baseline, 3 and 6 months follow up)
- Coping(Baseline, 3 and 6 months follow up)
- Level of Confidence(Baseline, 3 and 6 months follow up)
- Carers strain(Baseline, 3 and 6 months)