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Evaluation of the Impact of an Individual Peer Support Intervention for Stroke Patients When Returning Home: a Mixed Methods Pilot Study

NCT04197258 · Status: RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 40

Last updated 2025-05-25

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Summary

Going back home following a stroke is a key step for the patient and his or her relatives. Due to the brutality of stroke and increasingly shorter in-hospital lengths of stay, patients and their families must adapt quickly to the patient's new health functioning and the new caregiving and support role for family members.

Peer support could be an innovative and inexpensive approach to addressing these issues. Peer-helpers are patient-partners who put their experiential knowledge from life with the disease at the disposal of other patients to offer them social and emotional support in the management of the disease in connection with care, social and community structures. Group peer support programs face organizational challenges and fail to address the full range of patient needs for stroke home visits. Individualized and more flexible support could better meet the needs of patients. Our hypothesis is that individual peer support improves quality of life and patient empowerment during the discharge period compared to usual practice.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Peer support

The intervention studied is the psycho-social support by a peer-helper to the patients and their main informal caregiver during the return home following a stay in rehabilitation center for a stroke. Peer support intervention will be based on evidence, Bandura's social learning and social support theory, and the results of our ongoing study of the needs of patients and their caregivers as a result of returning home (Stroke69). It will include a meeting before the discharge and a regular follow-up for 6 months (face-to-face meetings, virtual or by phone), adapted to the needs of the patient and his caregiver, taking into account the social environment and in connection with the devices existing sanitary and social.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Hospices Civils de Lyon

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2020-10-09
Primary Completion
2026-12-05
Completion
2026-12-05

Countries

  • France

Study Locations

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