Me-Amputee Study
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Exploring meaningful outcomes of recovery following lower limb amputation and prosthetic rehabilitation: The patient’s perspective.
IRAS ID
248850
Contact name
Chantel Ostler
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
Portsmouth Hospitals Trust
Duration of Study in the UK
1 years, 0 months, 0 days
Research summary
There are many different outcome measures used by services who deliver amputee rehabilitation and in research projects investigating new products and treatment techniques. Nationally we are not all using the same measures and it has been difficult to agree on what we need to measure and what tools should be used.
The Me-Amputee study will investigate what people who have experienced major limb loss think are the important aspects of recovery and how they should be measured. 40 people over the age of 18 who have undergone a major lower limb amputation will be recruited from four regional limb centres as well as organisations that support people with limb loss and on social media sites. Group discussions and one to one interviews will be used to collect data and Informed consent will be sought from all participants prior to their involvement.
The group discussions and one to one interviews will follow a flexible interview guide and will be audio recorded and then transcribed to allow the research team to review the conversations in detail and look for themes that are common to all the people who took part.
We hope this will allow us to identify what really matters to people as they undertake life with a prosthesis, we may then be able to identify the outcome measures that capture this and make recommendations to clinicians and researchers about what are the most meaningful measures to use from a patients perspective.
REC name
East Midlands - Nottingham 1 Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
18/EM/0259
Date of REC Opinion
15 Oct 2018
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion