Effectiveness and Cost-effectiveness of Home-Based Occupational Therapy with Activity Monitoring for Daily Functioning of People Post-Stroke: Protocol for a Partially Randomised Usual Care Stepped-Wedge Trial (Preprint)

Le résumé fourni par la source

BACKGROUND Transitioning from a geriatric rehabilitation centre or hospital to home is challenging for persons post-stroke, as they must increase their ability to perform daily activities and self-manage their lives. Moreover, persons post-stroke exhibit more sedentary behaviour at home than during rehabilitation, which is detrimental to their health. The Occupational Therapy at Home E-Rehabilitation (OTHER) intervention aims to increase daily activities and self-management in persons post-stroke. OTHER involves in-person (online) coaching with information from activity monitoring. OBJECTIVE Here, we describe the design of a study investigating the (cost-)effectiveness of OTHER on the recovery of daily activities among older persons after stroke and evaluate its implementation process. METHODS A partially cluster randomised stepped-wedge trial is conducted in nine geriatric rehabilitation centres and two hospitals, aiming to include 171 post-stroke participants (aged ≥ 60 years) who are starting (inpatient) rehabilitation to return home. The intervention group receives the OTHER intervention by an occupational therapist, starting at the institute and continuing at home. This intervention consists of activity monitoring to increase insight into movement behaviour, as well as coaching by occupational therapists on improving daily activities at home. This supports persons post-stroke in performing daily activities and increasing self-management. The control group receives care as usual. The primary outcome is the performance score of the Canadian Occupational Performance Measure, which measures a person's perceived daily functioning at 6 months. A process evaluation will be conducted to assess the implementation process of the OTHER intervention during the research period. RESULTS Recruitment started on April 23, 2023. We completed recruitment for people after stroke at the end of July 2025. Data collection will continue until the end of January 2026. At the time of submission (November 2025), 121 participants had been enrolled. For the process evaluation, professionals for the focus groups (November 2025) are recruited now and individual interview of people post-stroke and informal caregiver started in February 2025 and will go on until December 2025. CONCLUSIONS This trial is studying the effect of activity monitoring combined with home-based occupational therapy coaching for persons post-stroke. With this study, we aim to provide insight into the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of the OTHER intervention compared to care as usual for persons post-stroke, and describe the process of implementation, which includes home-based geriatric rehabilitation. CLINICALTRIAL ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT05855226; https://clinicaltrial.be/nl/details/267616?country=Netherlands&only_eligible=0&only_recruiting=1&per_page=100 Preprint at MEDRXIV: 2025/337833

Ce résumé expose les affirmations des auteurs. BNTIC ne l’interprète pas comme une validation indépendante des résultats.