RAFT - Resilience after the Trauma of Acute Illness

  • Research type

    Research Study

  • Full title

    RAFT - Resilience after the Trauma of Acute Illness

  • IRAS ID

    221985

  • Contact name

    Christian P Subbe

  • Contact email

    csubbe@hotmail.com

  • Sponsor organisation

    University of Liverpool

  • Duration of Study in the UK

    0 years, 8 months, 1 days

  • Research summary

    Resilience is the ability to bounce back after traumatic experiences in sport, war or health. While resilience has been investigated in some detail in chronic disease management the impact of high or low resilience on recovery from acute illness is not known.
    RAFT if a feasibility to test applicability of commonly used measures of resilience in two groups of patients: patients admitted to hospital as emergencies and patients taking part in pulmonary rehabilitation after a hospital admission.

  • REC name

    Wales REC 5

  • REC reference

    17/WA/0024

  • Date of REC Opinion

    10 Feb 2017

  • REC opinion

    Further Information Favourable Opinion