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Adopting Dyad-focused Strategy Training to Stroke Survivors and Their Caregivers: Intervention Development and a Feasibility Study
In Brief
A clinical study evaluating Dyad-focused strategy training for Stroke. Completed, enrolled 16 participants across 1 site.
Detailed Summary
The purpose of this study is to develop a dyad-focused intervention built upon the theoretical tenets of strategy training to help prepare stroke survivors and their caregivers to transit to community living. The study will involve two phases. In phase one, the intervention protocol will be developed through literature review, expert panel meeting, and focus groups with rehabilitation therapists, stroke survivors, and caregivers. In phase two, a feasibility study will be conducted to evaluate the acceptability and suitability of this newly-developed intervention and outcome measures to stroke survivor-caregiver dyads. A mixed-methods (quantitative and qualitative) design, including a repeated measures design, will be used in this feasibility study. Fifteen to twenty stroke survivor-caregiver dyads are expected to be recruited. The participants will receive the dyad-focused strategy training intervention using the developed intervention protocol. Standardized assessments will be used to assess dyadic outcomes at baseline, post-intervention, and 3-month and 6-month follow-ups. Quantitative data will be analyzed descriptively.
Study Details
Timeline
Interventions
Rehabilitation therapists will be hired to deliver the intervention to the stroke survivors-caregiver dyads on a one-to-two base. The therapist will ask the dyad to identify their shared goals and provide them the global strategy "Goal-Plan-Do-Check" (also called guided discovery strategy), which involves (1) setting a goal to address the barriers, (2) developing a plan to address the goal, (3) doing the plan, and (4) checking if the plan worked or required revising. This procedure will be repeated iteratively until the dyad's goal is met, and the next goal can be moved on to.