Patient Perspectives of Critical Care Rehabilitation

• Research type

  Research Study

• Full title

  Exploring patient perspectives of attending a six week outpatient critical care rehabilitation programme following critical illness

• IRAS ID

  258215

• Contact name

  Jacqueline Shanley

• Contact email

  j.shanley@coventry.ac.uk

• Sponsor organisation

  North West Anglia NHS Foudation Trust

• Clinicaltrials.gov Identifier

  P/2018/258215, HB Critical Care Rehabilitation Project

• Duration of Study in the UK

  0 years, 5 months, 20 days

• Research summary

  In one UK hospital NHS Trust, critical care rehabilitation is being trialled. Once discharged from hospital, critical care survivors are invited to participate in a six-week outpatient physiotherapy led exercise programme. Patients complete approximately forty-five minutes of exercise within a group environment, under the supervision of a physiotherapist. The effectiveness of this programme is based on walking outcome measures. However, little research has explored patient perspectives of participating in a rehabilitation programme post critical illness and how this can impact quality of life.
  Therefore this research is looking to explore the patient experiences of participating in a critical care physiotherapy rehabilitation programme.

• REC name

  London - West London & GTAC Research Ethics Committee

• REC reference

  19/LO/0116

• Date of REC Opinion

  14 Jan 2019

• REC opinion

  Further Information Favourable Opinion