Co-producing an intervention to reduce sitting time after stroke
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Developing an intervention to reduce sedentary behaviour in patients after stroke - a co-production study in two centres
IRAS ID
245783
Contact name
Anne Forster
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Duration of Study in the UK
0 years, 11 months, 31 days
Research summary
Informed by principles of co-production, we will develop, together with two groups of stakeholders (each comprising stroke survivors, caregivers, health professionals, volunteers, researchers and public health practitioners), the content and intended implementation approach for an intervention that aims to reduce and/or break up sedentary behaviour. All participants in the co-production work will bring important knowledge and experience to the co-production activities. The intervention is likely to commence in inpatient stroke unit settings and be continued post-discharge by community dwelling stroke survivors.
Group members in this study will work collaboratively in a structured and facilitated way to discuss and build on ideas, develop an intervention and establish implementation plans for reducing time stroke survivors spend sitting/lying down. This may include agreed preparatory or additional development work occurring outside of the regular group meetings. Work occurring outside of the planned meetings will be negotiated and agreed with individual participants who volunteer to take this work on.
The evidence generated from the work undertaken within two earlier linked studies will be presented in an accessible format, and discussed with members of the co-production groups. Researchers will also introduce co-production group members to ways in which behaviour change can be supported; in this case, reducing and breaking up sedentary behaviour is the target behaviour. The groups will progress from understanding ‘what is going on now’ as a precursor to designing ‘what we want to happen in future’ (the intervention) and ‘how we will deliver’ this (implementation planning).
The co-production groups (one working in England and one in Scotland) will develop the intervention and outline plans for its implementation. The intervention will then be tested in a subsequent feasibility study (WS4). Subject to the outcome of the feasibility study, we will progress to a definitive multi-centre randomised controlled trial with an embedded process evaluation (WS5).
REC name
Yorkshire & The Humber - Leeds East Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
18/YH/0211
Date of REC Opinion
14 Jun 2018
REC opinion
Favourable Opinion