Family-led rehabilitation after stroke in India: the ATTEND trial, study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

Background: Globally, most strokes occur in low- and middle-income countries, such as India, with many affected people having no or limited access to rehabilitation services. Western models of stroke rehabilitation are often unaffordable in many populations but evidence from systematic reviews of st...

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Main Authors: Alim, Mohammed, Lindley, Richard, Felix, Cynthia, Gandhi, Dorcas Beulah Chandramathy, Verma, Shweta Jain, Tugnawat, Deepak Kumar, Syrigapu, Anuradha, Anderson, Craig Stuart, Ramamurthy, Ramaprabhu Krishnappa, Langhorne, Peter, Murthy, Gudlavalleti Venkata Satyanarayana, Shamanna, Bindiganavale Ramaswamy, Hackett, Maree Lisa, Maulik, Pallab Kumar, Harvey, Lisa Anne, Jan, Stephen, Liu, Hueiming, Walker, Marion, Forster, Anne, Pandian, Jeyaraj Durai
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author Alim, Mohammed
Lindley, Richard
Felix, Cynthia
Gandhi, Dorcas Beulah Chandramathy
Verma, Shweta Jain
Tugnawat, Deepak Kumar
Syrigapu, Anuradha
Anderson, Craig Stuart
Ramamurthy, Ramaprabhu Krishnappa
Langhorne, Peter
Murthy, Gudlavalleti Venkata Satyanarayana
Shamanna, Bindiganavale Ramaswamy
Hackett, Maree Lisa
Maulik, Pallab Kumar
Harvey, Lisa Anne
Jan, Stephen
Liu, Hueiming
Walker, Marion
Forster, Anne
Pandian, Jeyaraj Durai
author_facet Alim, Mohammed
Lindley, Richard
Felix, Cynthia
Gandhi, Dorcas Beulah Chandramathy
Verma, Shweta Jain
Tugnawat, Deepak Kumar
Syrigapu, Anuradha
Anderson, Craig Stuart
Ramamurthy, Ramaprabhu Krishnappa
Langhorne, Peter
Murthy, Gudlavalleti Venkata Satyanarayana
Shamanna, Bindiganavale Ramaswamy
Hackett, Maree Lisa
Maulik, Pallab Kumar
Harvey, Lisa Anne
Jan, Stephen
Liu, Hueiming
Walker, Marion
Forster, Anne
Pandian, Jeyaraj Durai
author_sort Alim, Mohammed
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description Background: Globally, most strokes occur in low- and middle-income countries, such as India, with many affected people having no or limited access to rehabilitation services. Western models of stroke rehabilitation are often unaffordable in many populations but evidence from systematic reviews of stroke unit care and early supported discharge rehabilitation trials suggest that some components might form the basis of affordable interventions in low-resource settings. We describe the background, history and design of the ATTEND trial, a complex intervention centred on family-led stroke rehabilitation in India. Methods/design: The ATTEND trial aims to test the hypothesis that a family-led caregiver-delivered home-based rehabilitation intervention, designed for the Indian context, will reduce the composite poor outcome of death or dependency at 6 months after stroke, in a multicentre, individually randomized controlled trial with blinded outcome assessment, involving 1200 patients across 14 hospital sites in India. Discussion: The ATTEND trial is testing the effectiveness of a low-cost rehabilitation intervention that could be widely generalizable to other low- and middle-income countries.
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spelling nottingham-380092020-05-04T17:33:00Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/38009/ Family-led rehabilitation after stroke in India: the ATTEND trial, study protocol for a randomized controlled trial Alim, Mohammed Lindley, Richard Felix, Cynthia Gandhi, Dorcas Beulah Chandramathy Verma, Shweta Jain Tugnawat, Deepak Kumar Syrigapu, Anuradha Anderson, Craig Stuart Ramamurthy, Ramaprabhu Krishnappa Langhorne, Peter Murthy, Gudlavalleti Venkata Satyanarayana Shamanna, Bindiganavale Ramaswamy Hackett, Maree Lisa Maulik, Pallab Kumar Harvey, Lisa Anne Jan, Stephen Liu, Hueiming Walker, Marion Forster, Anne Pandian, Jeyaraj Durai Background: Globally, most strokes occur in low- and middle-income countries, such as India, with many affected people having no or limited access to rehabilitation services. Western models of stroke rehabilitation are often unaffordable in many populations but evidence from systematic reviews of stroke unit care and early supported discharge rehabilitation trials suggest that some components might form the basis of affordable interventions in low-resource settings. We describe the background, history and design of the ATTEND trial, a complex intervention centred on family-led stroke rehabilitation in India. Methods/design: The ATTEND trial aims to test the hypothesis that a family-led caregiver-delivered home-based rehabilitation intervention, designed for the Indian context, will reduce the composite poor outcome of death or dependency at 6 months after stroke, in a multicentre, individually randomized controlled trial with blinded outcome assessment, involving 1200 patients across 14 hospital sites in India. Discussion: The ATTEND trial is testing the effectiveness of a low-cost rehabilitation intervention that could be widely generalizable to other low- and middle-income countries. BioMed Central 2016-01-07 Article PeerReviewed Alim, Mohammed, Lindley, Richard, Felix, Cynthia, Gandhi, Dorcas Beulah Chandramathy, Verma, Shweta Jain, Tugnawat, Deepak Kumar, Syrigapu, Anuradha, Anderson, Craig Stuart, Ramamurthy, Ramaprabhu Krishnappa, Langhorne, Peter, Murthy, Gudlavalleti Venkata Satyanarayana, Shamanna, Bindiganavale Ramaswamy, Hackett, Maree Lisa, Maulik, Pallab Kumar, Harvey, Lisa Anne, Jan, Stephen, Liu, Hueiming, Walker, Marion, Forster, Anne and Pandian, Jeyaraj Durai (2016) Family-led rehabilitation after stroke in India: the ATTEND trial, study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. Trials, 17 (13). ISSN 1745-6215 Caregivers Costs Disability Rehabilitation Stroke http://trialsjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13063-015-1129-8 doi:10.1186/s13063-015-1129-8 doi:10.1186/s13063-015-1129-8
spellingShingle Caregivers
Costs
Disability
Rehabilitation
Stroke
Alim, Mohammed
Lindley, Richard
Felix, Cynthia
Gandhi, Dorcas Beulah Chandramathy
Verma, Shweta Jain
Tugnawat, Deepak Kumar
Syrigapu, Anuradha
Anderson, Craig Stuart
Ramamurthy, Ramaprabhu Krishnappa
Langhorne, Peter
Murthy, Gudlavalleti Venkata Satyanarayana
Shamanna, Bindiganavale Ramaswamy
Hackett, Maree Lisa
Maulik, Pallab Kumar
Harvey, Lisa Anne
Jan, Stephen
Liu, Hueiming
Walker, Marion
Forster, Anne
Pandian, Jeyaraj Durai
Family-led rehabilitation after stroke in India: the ATTEND trial, study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
title Family-led rehabilitation after stroke in India: the ATTEND trial, study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
title_full Family-led rehabilitation after stroke in India: the ATTEND trial, study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
title_fullStr Family-led rehabilitation after stroke in India: the ATTEND trial, study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
title_full_unstemmed Family-led rehabilitation after stroke in India: the ATTEND trial, study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
title_short Family-led rehabilitation after stroke in India: the ATTEND trial, study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
title_sort family-led rehabilitation after stroke in india: the attend trial, study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
topic Caregivers
Costs
Disability
Rehabilitation
Stroke
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/38009/
https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/38009/
https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/38009/