Getting Recovery Right After Neck Dissection (GRRAND-F): Mixed-methods feasibility study to design a pragmatic randomised controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To determine the feasibility of a randomised controlled trial to estimate the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a rehabilitation intervention following neck dissection (ND) after head and neck cancer (HNC).

Design

Two-arm, open, pragmatic, parallel, multicentre, randomised controlled feasibility trial.

Setting

Two UK NHS hospitals.

Participants

People who had HNC in whom a ND was part of their care. We excluded those with a life expectancy of six months or less, pre-existing, long-term neurological disease affecting the shoulder and cognitive impairment.

Intervention

Usual care (standard care supplemented with a booklet on postoperative self-management) was received by all participants. The GRRAND intervention programme consisted of usual

SUBMITTER: Smith TO 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10061058 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature