Stroke Circulatory System Stroke
Conditions
Interventions
The control group will receive existing care arrangements including a service information pack and a structured discharge summary to general practitioners detailing secondary prevention, rehabilitatio
Sponsors
UK Department of Health - Policy Research Programme
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Patients with a new stroke associated with persisting disability and or language impairment at 4 months post-stroke onset. A persisting disability is defined as a Barthel Index score at 4 months lower than their pre-stroke score.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: 1. Patients without new disability 2. Patients whose main problem is vascular dementia 3. Patients considered to have a poor 6 month survival prognosis because of co-morbidity
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Patient: extended activities of daily living (Frenchay Activities Index) Carer: Well-being (General Health Questionnaire-28) | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Patient: disability (Barthel Index); mood (Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale); health status (EQ-5D); service satisfaction (Homesat) Carer: strain (Carer Strain Index) Resource use: health, social and voluntary sector service use, and secondary prevention and psychotropic medication will be recorded using proforma questionnaires developed for our previous community stroke trials, supplemented by specific inquiry of service databases for high cost resources such as care home or hospital admissions | — |
Countries
United Kingdom
Outcome results
None listed