Rehabilitation Transition Program to Improve Community Participation Among Stroke Survivors: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Interventions are needed to support the long-term needs of stroke survivors when they transition from inpatient rehabilitation to home, where they face new home and community environmental barriers.

Objective

To compare the efficacy of a novel, enhanced rehabilitation transition program with attentional control to improve community participation and activity of daily living (ADL) performance and to reduce environmental barriers in the home and community after stroke.

Design, setting, and participants

This phase 2b, parallel randomized clinical trial assessed patients 50 years or older who had experienced an acute ischemic stroke or intracerebral hemorrhage, were independent in ADLs before stroke, and planned to be discharged home. Patients were assessed at

SUBMITTER: Bollinger RM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11581659 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature