Experience of patients and physiotherapists within the AFTER pilot randomised trial of two rehabilitation interventions for people aged 50 years and over post ankle fracture: a qualitative study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To explore patient and staff experience of best-practice rehabilitation advice (one session of face-to-face self-management advice with up to two additional optional sessions) compared with progressive functional exercise (up to six sessions of face-to-face physiotherapy) after ankle fracture.

Design

The study drew on phenomenology using interviews and a focus group.

Setting

Participants were from three NHS Trusts in England, UK.

Participants

A purposive sample of 20 patients with ankle (malleolar) fractures from the Ankle Fracture Treatment: Enhancing Rehabilitation-pilot trial (now completed) were interviewed (median 50 min) from May 2019 to January 2020. They were 6 months post injury, over 50 years of age, (median 66, 12 females) and had received

SUBMITTER: Tutton E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10373749 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature