The effects of a dialogue-based intervention to promote psychosocial well-being after stroke: a randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To evaluate the effect of a dialogue-based intervention targeting psychosocial well-being at 12 months post-stroke.

Design

Multicenter, prospective, randomized, assessor-blinded, controlled trial with two parallel groups.

Setting

Community.

Subjects

Three-hundred and twenty-two adults (⩾18 years) with stroke within the last four weeks were randomly allocated into intervention group (n = 166) or control group (n = 156).

Interventions

The intervention group received a dialogue-based intervention to promote psychosocial well-being, comprising eight individual 1-1½ hour sessions delivered during the first six months post-stroke.

Main measures

The primary outcome measure was the General Health Questionnaire-28 (GHQ-28). Secondar

SUBMITTER: Bragstad LK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7372590 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature