Patient and physiotherapist perceptions of the Getting Recovery Right After Neck Dissection (GRRAND) rehabilitation intervention: a qualitative interview study embedded within a feasibility trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The Getting Recovery Right After Neck Dissection (GRRAND) intervention is a physiotherapy programme for patients with head and neck cancer who have undergone neck dissection. The aim of this qualitative study was to understand if the intervention was useful, acceptable and whether it was feasible to conduct a randomised controlled trial (RCT).

Design

This qualitative study was embedded within the GRRAND-Feasibility (GRRAND-F) Study.

Setting

Participants were recruited from four acute National Health Service hospitals in England between 2020 and 2021.

Participants

We interviewed four usual care and four intervention patient-participants from a single study site (Oxford). Six were male, two were female. All were white British ethnicity. We interviewed t

SUBMITTER: Fordham B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9664296 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature