Facilitating Leisure Participation (FLiP) after stroke
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Facilitating Leisure Participation (FLiP) after stroke: co-creation of a complex intervention
IRAS ID
355462
Contact name
Kathryn Jarvis
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
University of Lancashire
Duration of Study in the UK
1 years, 3 months, 19 days
Research summary
Taking part in leisure activities, such as socialising with friends, playing sports, games or musical instruments, or undertaking art and craft projects, is good for health and well-being. People who are living with stroke experience barriers to leisure, with two thirds taking part in less leisure activities after their stroke. The aim of our study is to develop an intervention to support people living with stroke to take part in more leisure activities. To do this, we plan to work with people who have either personal or professional experience of stroke in a process called co-creation.
With support from our partners (East Lancashire NHS Hospital Trust and the Stroke Association), along with connections we have from a previous consulting event, we plan to include 15 people who have personal experience of stroke and 15 professionals in a series of five structured group meetings to develop an intervention. All those participating will be invited to all meetings. They will also be asked to complete an online survey to record information about themselves to help us describe who has taken part in the meetings. This survey will also collect information about and the participants relationship with leisure activities (both professionals and people with experience of stroke), and their role and organisation (professionals only).
We will analyse the information from the group meetings by using a tool called the Template for intervention description and replication (TIDieR) checklist. This will be used to describe the intervention (What? Where? By whom? When? How long?). By the end of this study, we will have a detailed description of a complex intervention to support people living stroke increase the number of valued leisure activities in which they are taking part. The intervention can then be tested for feasibility and impact.
REC name
East Midlands - Leicester South Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
26/EM/0080
Date of REC Opinion
20 Apr 2026
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion