Keeping Active with Texting after Stroke (KATS): a single-arm feasibility and acceptability study of a behavioural intervention to promote community-based physical activity after stroke rehabilitation.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To test the feasibility and acceptability of a text-message-delivered behavioural intervention to promote and maintain physical activity and recovery after stroke rehabilitation.

Design

A single-arm acceptability and feasibility study.

Setting

Community rehabilitation services in two Health Board areas in Scotland.

Participants

People with stroke who could participate in physical activities and use a mobile phone were recruited during rehabilitation and community rehabilitation.

Intervention

Keeping Active with Texting after Stroke (KATS) is an automated text message-delivered intervention informed by behaviour change theory. It delivers a structured sequence of 103 messages over 14 weeks to support the uptake and maintenance of physical activ

SUBMITTER: Morris JH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11808871 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature