Rights-based Rehabilitation
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Rights-based Rehabilitation: A Qualitative Research Project Co-produced with Disabled People
IRAS ID
207584
Contact name
Harriet Cooper
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
University of East Anglia
Duration of Study in the UK
1 years, 11 months, 30 days
Research summary
This project will explore processes through which the views and experiences of disabled people who have been through rehabilitation can shape and improve rehabilitation services.
My literature review has revealed little evidence of the involvement of disabled people in the shaping of previous research on rehabilitation. Little is known about either disabled people’s experiences of rehabilitation or their priorities for a research project of this kind.
The focus of the study is the health service, specifically rehabilitation services. The research will be conducted using qualitative methods, including semi-structured interviews, focus groups and a creative writing workshop.
The participants will be people with a long term physical or sensory impairment who have experienced in-patient or out-patient rehabilitation at any stage of the life-course.
Rehabilitation includes:
• Physiotherapy, occupational therapy, speech and language therapy
• rehabilitation medicine and nursing
• rehabilitation counselling and psychology
• using wheelchair services
• training for use of other assistive devices
• experience of using orthotics and prosthetics
• another type of rehabilitation for a physical or sensory impairment.Participants will be recruited within Norfolk:
- via the Colman Centre for Specialist Rehabilitation Services, Norwich
- via Equal Lives (Norfolk-based disabled people's organisation)
- via user-led support groups (national and local), for example Norwich Stroke Survivors
- via the project advisory group and PPI members
- via the networks of my supervisors and that of the CLAHRC East of England.The participants may take part in one or more strands of the data collection, but are likely only to be involved once, on one occasion.
REC name
North East - Newcastle & North Tyneside 1 Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
16/NE/0295
Date of REC Opinion
30 Aug 2016
REC opinion
Favourable Opinion