Community-based rehabilitation training after stroke: results of a pilot randomised controlled trial (ReTrain) investigating acceptability and feasibility.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To assess acceptability and feasibility of trial processes and the Rehabilitation Training (ReTrain) intervention including an assessment of intervention fidelity.

Design

A two-group, assessor-blinded, randomised controlled trial with parallel mixed methods process and economic evaluations.

Setting

Community settings across two sites in Devon.

Participants

Eligible participants were: 18 years old or over, with a diagnosis of stroke and with self-reported mobility issues, no contraindications to physical activity, discharged from National Health Service or any other formal rehabilitation programme at least 1 month before, willing to be randomised to either control or ReTrain and attend the training venue, possessing cognitive capacity and communicatio

SUBMITTER: Dean SG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5829775 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature