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Cerebrovascular diseases
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This feasibility study will explore the clinical effectiveness of additional upper limb therapy compared to standard care delivered to Stroke Survivors at Sussex Rehabilitation Centre (SRC). Patients will be screened and approached for consent within 2 weeks of admission. Randomisation via Sealed Envelope will allocate treatment group to either routine care or upper limb training for self management plus routine care. If randomised to upper limb training, a patient will undertake 10 therapy sessions with an instructor from the Action for Rehabilitation for Neurological Injury (ARNI) program during their hospital stay. The last two ARNI-led sessions will be filmed by a nurse/carer on either their own tablet/phone or an i-pad. Participants in the ARNI group will be encouraged to continue doing their personalized exercises while in hospital and continued at home. They will also be given a task-training board to take home.
This randomised controlled trial will measure outcomes of each group over six months. Each patient in the study will have upper limb physical measurements taken by a blinded Research Nurse (RN2) at baseline. Research Nurse (RN1) will gather data in a Clinical Report File from a weekly exercise diary completed by the patient or carer and well-being questionnaires. On discharge, RN2 will conduct upper limb measurements, collect completed hospital diaries and issue new ones to take home. RN1 will give a weekly phone call or text reminders so that patients to complete exercise diaries at home. At 6 months RN2 will do final measurements and complete patient questionnaires in an outpatients Clinic visit.
We aim to recruit 36 patients and anticipate 30 (83%) will complete the 6 month follow up.
The study sponsor will be the University of Sussex. However, as the study is run in rehabilitation unit in an NHS hospital, BSUH NHS Trust will host the study.
Start dates may differ between countries and research sites. The research team are responsible for keeping the information up-to-date.
The recruitment start and end dates are as follows:
Type: Education or Self-Management;Physical;Rehabilitation;
You can take part if:
You may not be able to take part if:
Aged under 18 years AMTS < 8 Have a neurological deficit which does not involve upper limb Presence of a terminal illness with shortened life expectancy < 6 months.
Below are the locations for where you can take part in the trial. Please note that not all sites may be open.
The study is sponsored by University of Sussex and funded by British Geriatrics Society; University of Sussex; .
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for Trial ID: CPMS 43137
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