Keeping Active with Texting after Stroke (KATS): development of a text message intervention to promote physical activity and exercise after stroke.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Post-stroke physical activity reduces disability and risk of further stroke. When stroke rehabilitation ends, some people feel abandoned by services and struggle to undertake physical activities that support recovery and health. The aim of this study was to codesign a novel text message intervention to promote physical activity among people with stroke and provide support when formal rehabilitation ends. This manuscript describes the intervention development processes that will inform future pilot and feasibility studies.

Methods

The planned intervention was a series of text messages to be sent in a predetermined sequence to people with stroke at the end of rehabilitation. The intervention, underpinned by behaviour change theory and using salient behaviour change

SUBMITTER: Irvine L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10288680 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature