Actively Recruiting

Phase Not Applicable
Age: 18Years +
All Genders
NCT04197258

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

Led by Hospices Civils de Lyon · Updated on 2025-05-25

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Participants Needed

1

Research Sites

321 weeks

Total Duration

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AI-Summary

What this Trial Is About

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

Official Title

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

Who Can Participate

Age: 18Years +
All Genders

Eligibility Criteria

Eligible

You may qualify if you...

  • Adult patient
  • Had a first confirmed ischemic or hemorrhagic stroke
  • Managed in the participating rehabilitation center
  • Planned discharge directly to home from the rehabilitation center
  • Modified Rankin score of 1 to 3 at discharge decision
  • Provided written consent
  • Main residence located in the Rhône department
  • Aphasic patients may participate if a caregiver can assist with follow-up
Not Eligible

You will not qualify if you...

  • Patient lived in an institution before the stroke
  • Included in a gerontological network before stroke
  • Unable to understand quality of life questionnaires
  • Has unstable medical or psychological conditions that may affect compliance or safety
  • Under guardianship or curatorship
  • Not affiliated with social health insurance

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Trial Site Locations

Total: 1 location

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Hôpital Henry Gabrielle

Saint-Genis-Laval, France, 69230

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Research Team

J

Julie Haesebaert, MD

CONTACT

A

Anne Termoz

CONTACT

How is the study designed?

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Masking

NONE

Allocation

NON_RANDOMIZED

Model

PARALLEL

Primary Purpose

HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Number of Arms

2

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