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Evaluation of the Impact of an Individual Peer Support Intervention for Stroke Patients When Returning Home: a Mixed Methods Pilot Study

Evaluation of the Impact of an Individual Peer Support Intervention for Stroke Patients When Returning Home: a Mixed Methods Pilot Study

Status
Recruiting
Phases
NA
Study type
Interventional
Source
ClinicalTrials.gov
Registry ID
NCT04197258
Acronym
PARADE
Enrollment
40
Registered
2019-12-13
Start date
2020-10-09
Completion date
2026-12-05
Last updated
2025-05-25

For informational purposes only — not medical advice. Sourced from public registries and may not reflect the latest updates. Terms

Conditions

Stroke

Keywords

Stroke, Peer support

Brief summary

Going back home following a stroke is a key step for the patient and his or her relatives. Due to the brutality of stroke and increasingly shorter in-hospital lengths of stay, patients and their families must adapt quickly to the patient's new health functioning and the new caregiving and support role for family members. Peer support could be an innovative and inexpensive approach to addressing these issues. Peer-helpers are patient-partners who put their experiential knowledge from life with the disease at the disposal of other patients to offer them social and emotional support in the management of the disease in connection with care, social and community structures. Group peer support programs face organizational challenges and fail to address the full range of patient needs for stroke home visits. Individualized and more flexible support could better meet the needs of patients. Our hypothesis is that individual peer support improves quality of life and patient empowerment during the discharge period compared to usual practice.

Interventions

OTHERPeer support

The intervention studied is the psycho-social support by a peer-helper to the patients and their main informal caregiver during the return home following a stay in rehabilitation center for a stroke. Peer support intervention will be based on evidence, Bandura's social learning and social support theory, and the results of our ongoing study of the needs of patients and their caregivers as a result of returning home (Stroke69). It will include a meeting before the discharge and a regular follow-up for 6 months (face-to-face meetings, virtual or by phone), adapted to the needs of the patient and his caregiver, taking into account the social environment and in connection with the devices existing sanitary and social.

Sponsors

Hospices Civils de Lyon
Lead SponsorOTHER

Study design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No

Inclusion criteria

* Adult patient, * Having had a first confirmed, ischemic or hemorrhagic stroke * Managed in the participating rehabilitation center * Whose discharge to home directly from the rehabilitation center is planned * Presenting a modified Rankin score of 1 to 3 when deciding to leave the stroke center * Having given its written consent * Whose main residence is located in the Rhône department * Aphasic patients may be included if a caregiver can follow up with the case manager

Exclusion criteria

* Patient living in an institution prior to stroke * included in a gerontological network before stroke * Patient unable to understand quality of life questionnaires * Patient with unstable medical or psychological conditions who, in the opinion of the investigator, could lead the subject to be non-compliant or uncooperative during the study or could compromise patient safety or participation in the study * Patient under guardianship or curatorship * Patient not affiliated to a social health insurance

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frameDescription
Feasibility measure6 monthsThe feasibility of the intervention will be evaluated as success with a combined criteria including: * Recruitment and training of 2 peer helpers, * Support offered to 20 patients by the peer helpers during the intervention period defined by at least one meeting before and one contact after discharge per patient included in period after, * Good acceptability by patients, carers and peer helpers. These data will be collected by a qualitative approach associating semi-directive interviews, focus groups and participant observation.

Secondary

MeasureTime frameDescription
Anxiety and depression scores between discharge and 6 months6 monthsEvolution of anxiety and depression scores between discharge and 6 months after discharge, measured by the Hospital Anxiety and Depression scale (HADS) score
Patient activation Measure6 monthsEvolution of patient activation between discharge and 6 months after discharge, measured by the Patient activation Measure (PAM) score
Disability6 monthsproportion of patients with disabilities at 6 months evaluated by the Modified Rankin Scale (no disability corresponding to mRs\<3)
Adherence6 monthsproportion of adherent patients at 6 months evaluated by the Medication Adherence Rating Scale (MARS)
Quality of life between the discharge from hospital and 6 months6 monthsEvolution of the dimensions of the SIS at hospital discharge and 6 months: force dimension
Satisfaction measure6 monthsPerceived satisfaction of the support received on during the discharge period will be collected by interviewing the patient
Caregiver burden6 monthsEvolution of caregiver burden between discharge and 6 months after discharge, measured by the Zarit burden scale
Caregiver satisfaction6 monthsPerceived caregiver satisfaction of the support during the patient's discharge period will be collected by interviewing caregiver
Human, material and financial assistance provided at home6 monthsHuman, material and financial assistance provided at home collected by interviewing the patient

Countries

France

Contacts

Primary ContactJulie Haesebaert, MD
julie.haesebaert01@chu-lyon.fr472684905
Backup ContactAnne Termoz
anne.termoz@chu-lyon.fr427856300

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026