Group self-management after stroke
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Investigating the feasibility of a group self-management program after stroke
IRAS ID
141894
Contact name
D Wilson
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
UCL
Clinicaltrials.gov Identifier
Z6364106/2015/08/25, Data Protection
Duration of Study in the UK
2 years, 5 months, 1 days
Research summary
Stroke is the commonest cause of disability in the world. In the UK alone, someone suffers a stroke every five minutes. In recent years, the number of people surviving a stroke has increased so that the number of people living with the long-term consequences of stroke is rising. The need for long-term stroke care will also rise and continue to outweigh our ability to provide it.
Long-term support services for stroke are already sparse, but they have been further reduced in line with funding cuts. Stroke survivors only receive ongoing care for a short time after they are discharged home and subsequently, some people feel abandoned and are left with needs that are unmet.
Alternative ways to address these problems are needed. One solution is support greater attention to helping people self manage after stroke. Self-management approaches can equip people with different ideas and strategies to help them manage life with their condition. Bridges is a one-to-one self-management programme which is just starting to be used within the NHS. Importantly, it can increase a person’s belief in their own ability to cope. One-to-one delivery is not suitable or feasible for everyone, and there is interest in whether Bridges self-management approach can be delivered in a group. Importantly whether this approach can be just as effective, more efficient and provide additional benefits such as social support.
Before we can conduct a properly designed clinical trial to investigate whether group self-management training works for stroke survivors, it is important to find out whether it is feasible – in other words whether it would be possible to conduct a larger research project of group self-management post stroke
REC name
North East - Newcastle & North Tyneside 1 Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
15/NE/0341
Date of REC Opinion
25 Sep 2015
REC opinion
Favourable Opinion