Taking Charge after Stroke: A randomized controlled trial of a person-centered, self-directed rehabilitation intervention.

ABSTRACT:

Background and purpose

"Take Charge" is a novel, community-based self-directed rehabilitation intervention which helps a person with stroke take charge of their own recovery. In a previous randomized controlled trial, a single Take Charge session improved independence and health-related quality of life 12 months following stroke in Māori and Pacific New Zealanders. We tested the same intervention in three doses (zero, one, or two sessions) in a larger study and in a broader non-Māori and non-Pacific population with stroke. We aimed to confirm whether the Take Charge intervention improved quality of life at 12 months after stroke in a different population and whether two sessions were more effective than one.

Methods

We randomized 400 people within 16 weeks of acute stroke wh

SUBMITTER: Fu V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7739137 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature