Challenges implementing a carer support intervention within a national stroke organisation: findings from the process evaluation of the OSCARSS trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To examine the implementation of an intervention to support informal caregivers and to help understand findings from the Organising Support for Carers of Stroke Survivors (OSCARSS) cluster randomised controlled trial (cRCT).

Design

Longitudinal process evaluation using mixed methods. Normalisation process theory informed data collection and provided a sensitising framework for analysis.

Setting

Specialist stroke support services delivered primarily in the homes of informal carers of stroke survivors.

Participants

OSCARSS cRCT participants including carers, staff, managers and senior leaders.

Intervention

The Carer Support Needs Assessment Tool for Stroke (CSNAT-Stroke) intervention is a staff-facilitated, carer-led approach to help identify, p

SUBMITTER: Darley S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7805355 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature