Stroke patients' and non-professional coaches' experiences with home-based constraint-induced movement therapy: a qualitative study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To investigate the experiences of chronic stroke patients and non-professional coaches with home-based constraint-induced movement therapy (homeCIMT).

Design

Qualitative study embedded within a cluster randomized controlled trial investigating the efficacy of homeCIMT to improve the use of the affected arm in daily activities.

Setting

Patients' home environment.

Participants

13 stroke patients and 9 non-professional coaches' alias family members who had completed the four-week homeCIMT programme in the context of the HOMECIMT trial.

Interventions

Semi-structured interviews; qualitative data were analysed using the methodology of the hermeneutic phenomenological data analysis.

Results

We identified six themes in the qualitative analysis d

SUBMITTER: Stark A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6716206 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature