ATTEND-Family-led Rehabilitation After Stroke in India

Christian Medical College and Hospital, Ludhiana, India

Status: Completed

Conditions: Stroke

Treatments: Other: Physiotherapy; Other: Control arm

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02123875

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Details and patient eligibility

About

ATTEND Trial is based on early supported discharge- home based stroke rehabilitation model which proves to offer several advantages in low and mid income countries. The objectives of the pilot stude were to determine that with a randomized blinded outcome assessor, controlled trial, family- led caregiver- delivered home based rehabilitation is better than usual care for those with disabling stroke in India and the feasibility of this model.

Enrollment: 104 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Adults (>18 years)
• Recent (<1 month) acute ischaemic/haemorrhagic/ undifferentiated stroke
• Residual disability (requiring help from another person for everyday activities)
• Expected to survive to discharge from hospital with a reasonable expectation of six month survival
• Able (or by proxy) to provide informed consent

Exclusion criteria

• Unable to identify a suitable family - nominated caregiver for training and subsequent delivery of care
• Those unwilling/unable to adhere to follow up.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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104 participants in 2 patient groups

Control arm

Other group

Description:

Routine hospital based physiotherapy

Treatment:

Other: Control arm

Physiotherapy intervention arm

Other group

Description:

Caregiver delivered, home based physiotherapy

Treatment:

Other: Physiotherapy