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Turkish Validity and Reliability of the Expanded Rehabilitation Complexity Scale

Turkish Validity and Reliability of the Expanded Rehabilitation Complexity Scale in Patients in the Stroke Palliative Care Unit

Status
Recruiting
Phases
Unknown
Study type
Observational
Source
ClinicalTrials.gov
Registry ID
NCT06573359
Enrollment
110
Registered
2024-08-27
Start date
2024-08-24
Completion date
2025-01-07
Last updated
2024-11-08

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

Conditions

Stroke

Keywords

Rehabilitation Complexity Scale; needs assessment

Brief summary

The RCS is a tool that can assess the need for complex rehabilitation and objectively indicate that a patient may have difficulty functioning well at home or in the community if their medical needs are still high. Among rehabilitation patients, there are still patients with complex needs, even though they have maximized rehabilitation potential. Moreover, RCS can also be useful in highlighting cases of patients becoming seriously ill during the rehabilitation process due to an acute illness such as sepsis, which significantly limits treatment time. This information can be emphasized using RCS data when requesting extended or increased rehabilitation support.

Detailed description

The Rehabilitation Complexity Scale (RCS) is similarly designed to provide a simple measure of the complexity of rehabilitation needs and/or interventions; This can be implemented in a timely manner and takes into account essential care, specialist nursing, therapy and medical interventions. Clauses in the RCS state that care, nursing, therapy and medical input needs are the primary 'causes' of case complexity and (together with length of stay) will ultimately affect a particular individual. Compliance in healthcare processes is a very current issue, with particular emphasis on the individualization of rehabilitation settings. Compliance has been described by WHO as a complex issue with various dimensions and definitions, and these vary between countries. However, most definitions of appropriateness address a set of basic requirements: that care be effective (based on valid evidence); be efficient (cost-effective); and is consistent with the ethical principles and preferences of the individual, society or society concerned. It is thought that RCS will meet these needs.The research population will be 110 patients selected from the patients hospitalized in the palliative unit of Istanbul Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Hospital.The sample size was determined as 110. MEDCALC program was used in the analysis. Linear regression analysis was performed. Cronbach-alpha was calculated as 97%.Stabil subacute stroke patients will be included in the study. Barthel, FIM, RCS-E tools will be used in the study.

Interventions

OTHERquestionnaire

Turkish translation of the scale will be made by a native English speaker and the back translation will be made into English, and the consistency of the original and Turkish translation will be evaluated by a three-person expert committee. The psychometric properties of the scale will be investigated according to the methods used for the validity of the original scale. The validity of the scale was validated by analyzing the correlations between the rcs-e-tr score obtained at admission (both for each partial item and the total score) and other suitability indicators used in Turkey (FIM Motor and Barthel) using Spearman's rank correlation coefficient r (rho). will be evaluated. Additionally, to check the ability of rcs-e-tr to capture case complexity, it will be correlated with other scores usually recorded in our rehabilitation services on admission, using Spearman's rank correlation coefficient r(rho).

Sponsors

Istanbul Physical Medicine Rehabilitation Training and Research Hospital
Lead SponsorOTHER_GOV

Study design

Observational model
CASE_CONTROL
Time perspective
PROSPECTIVE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
2 Months to 6 Months
Healthy volunteers
No

Inclusion criteria

Clinical diagnoses of stroke -

Exclusion criteria

unstable cardiac and neurovascular disease \-

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frameDescription
Turkish validation and reliability of the Rehabilitation Complexity Scale (RCS-E)1 week for test retest interrater and intrarater evaluation. 2 months for the studyThe validity of the scale was validated by analyzing the correlations between the rcs-e-tr score obtained at admission (both for each partial item and the total score) and other suitability indicators used in Turkey (FIM Motor and Barthel) using Spearman's rank correlation coefficient r (rho). Additionally, to check the ability of rcs-e-tr to capture case complexity, it will be correlated with other scores usually recorded in our rehabilitation services on admission, using Spearman's rank correlation coefficient r(rho). Files will be viewed simultaneously and independently in a blinded manner by three researchers to assess the reproducibility of the scale.

Countries

Turkey (Türkiye)

Contacts

Primary Contactsedef ersoy, MD
sedef_ersoy@yahoo.com+905339532025
Backup Contactnurdan paker, Prof.MD
nurdanpaker@hotmail.com+905326917591

Outcome results

None listed

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