Family role in rehabilitation
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Rehabilitation: family role within the UK in comparison to Turkey
IRAS ID
204245
Contact name
Tom Shakespeare
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
University of East Anglia
Duration of Study in the UK
1 years, 1 months, days
Research summary
The aim of this project is to explore the role of the family in rehabilitation in the UK. The project has 3 objectives:
(i) To explore the activities that families undertake in in-patient rehabilitation. These might include visits, moral support, bringing treats and entertainment, helping with physiotherapy exercises, among others. Thus the task is to determine the content and extent of family involvement in disabled people’s lives during rehabilitation.
(ii) To explore how the disabled people and their families experience this process. This involves an analysis of how both parties feel about family involvement in rehabilitation. This includes an investigation of aspects that disabled people and their families find as enabling/disabling, the attitudes of the newly disabled person to their family and the attitudes of the family to the newly disabled person.
(iii) To investigate the relationship between family, statutory, and voluntary support systems, with a particular attention to people who lack family support. The tasks include an analysis of the kind of support disabled people get, when they do not have or are estranged from their families and how this shapes their experience of rehabilitation.
The study will entail observation for one month in in-patient rehabilitation; interviews with people experiencing rehabilitation and their family members; interviews and focus groups with rehabilitation professionals.
The findings of the study will be disseminated to rehabilitation professionals and policy-makers, disabled people and their organisations, to academic researchers, and to equivalent networks in Turkey.REC name
London - Brighton & Sussex Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
16/LO/1368
Date of REC Opinion
3 Aug 2016
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion