Older people living with frailty (multi-morbidity) Not Applicable
Conditions
Interventions
RePAT comprises 15 items/questions relating to components of rehabilitation potential where clinicians document their assessment findings and clinical reasoning behind rehabilitation assessments. Sta
Sponsors
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Staff participants 1. Physiotherapists or occupational therapists working in the acute care setting with older people living with frailty, specifically carrying out rehabilitation assessments or programmes of rehabilitation. Patient participants 1. Participants identified as frail by staff delivering routine clinical care and those in receipt of rehabilitation assessments or programmes of rehabilitation. 2. Participants able to give informed consent or if assessed and deemed to lack capacity consultee agreement from carer or family member or appropriate consultee. Family/carer participants 1. Carers or family members of patient participants in receipt of rehabilitation assessments or rehabilitation programmes.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Staff participants 1. Participants involved in research studies exploring or testing rehabilitation potential, rehabilitation assessments or rehabilitation models of care for older people living with frailty. 2. Staff participants working in specialist stroke, end of life or fracture services. Patient Participants 1. Participants in receipt of specialist stroke rehabilitation, specialist fracture care, specialist end of life or with a terminal diagnosis. 2. Participants with advanced care plans or directives, which stated that they did not wish to take part in research studies. 3. Patient participants found to lack capacity for whom an appropriate consultee could not be identified.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| 1. Feasibility is tested by recruiting physiotherapy and occupational therapy participants delivering the RePAT intervention to patients alongside usual clinical care and uses the following criteria 1.1. Five staff members recruited within one month 1.2. Twenty five patient participants recruited within two months 1.3. Intervention delivered to 25 participants 1.4. Fidelity of item completion achieved on RePAT intervention at 80% 2. Acceptability is tested by conducting semi-structured interviews with staff, patient and carer participants. For staff participants interviews were completed within two weeks of completing all RePAT assessments. For patients and carers, interviews were completed within two days of receiving the RePAT intervention. Interview data were analysed using thematic analysis. | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| There are no secondary outcome measures | — |
Countries
England, United Kingdom
Outcome results
None listed