Barriers and facilitators in providing home-based rehabilitation for stroke survivors with severe disability in the UK: an online focus group study with multidisciplinary rehabilitation teams.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

In the UK, over 20% of stroke survivors leave hospital with severe disability. Limited evidence-based clinical guidance is available to support the rehabilitation of these individuals. Our previous research has focused on establishing consensus regarding the core components of home-based rehabilitation for this under investigated group. This study explores the barriers of providing rehabilitation and identifies strategies to overcome them.

Design

Three focus group interviews were conducted with n=20. The context coding framework was employed to organise the transcribed data and to facilitate inductive and deductive analysis and synthesis.

Setting

Online, MSTeams, UK.

Participants

A purposive sample of 20 National Health Service clinical staff partici

SUBMITTER: Fisher RJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10401239 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature