Discharging people following stroke from hospital to community
Research type
Research Study
Full title
An exploration of facilitators and barriers to discharging people that have experienced stroke from hospital stroke services to community stroke care.
IRAS ID
274478
Contact name
Elizabeth Laird
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
Ulster University
Clinicaltrials.gov Identifier
19/NI/0217, N Ireland
Duration of Study in the UK
0 years, 7 months, 26 days
Research summary
This is a qualitative design that will use face to face individual interviews with senior stroke nurses (n=6), people that have experienced stroke (n=6)and their family carers (n=6)to explore facilitators and barriers to transfer from hospital stroke services to community stroke services. The justification for using this approach is the expectation of varying perspectives that can inform understandings of the issues and challenges experienced when planning from and transferring people with stroke from hospital to community care. Individual face to face interviews are a common data collection method used by qualitative researchers and can yield rich data as identified by Halcomb (2013). The interviews will be no longer than 35 minutes in duration, and will be conducted with approximately 18 people, and focused to address the aims of the study by use of developed interview schedules.
The interviews with stroke nurses (n=6) will be conducted by the MSc student (Freaney) in a private meeting room convenient to the Western Health and Social Care Trust employed senior stroke nurses, and at dates and times that have been agreed with them. The individual semi-structured interviews with each service user (n=6) and with each carer (n=6) will be conducted in private rooms in their own homes, with one interviewer (Freaney) conducting an interview with the service user, while in a second room a second interviewer (Laird) will conduct the interview with the carer. All interviews will be audio-recorded with permission from participants. Interview schedules have been developed.The interview data will be transcribed by EM Transcribing service, Belfast. All identifying information will be removed from the transcribed data. The data will then be analysed. Meaning units will be identified, and formulated into themes, and then grouped under higher order headings. The analysis will be subjected to critical dialogue between the two researchers.
REC name
HSC REC B
REC reference
19/NI/0217
Date of REC Opinion
13 Dec 2019
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion