Improving Primary Care After Stroke (IPCAS) randomised controlled trial: protocol for a multidimensional process evaluation.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Primary care interventions are often multicomponent, with several targets (eg, patients and healthcare professionals). Improving Primary Care After Stroke (IPCAS) is a novel primary care-based model of long-term stroke care involving a review of stroke-related needs, a self-management programme, a direct point of contact in general practice, enhanced communication between care services, and a directory of national and local community services, currently being evaluated in a cluster randomised controlled trial (RCT). Informed by Medical Research Council guidance for complex interventions and the Behaviour Change Consortium fidelity framework, this protocol outlines the process evaluation of IPCAS within this RCT. The process evaluation aimed to explore how the intervent

SUBMITTER: Aquino MRJR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7348649 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature