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NCT Number: NCT07089095

Factors and Preferences in Patient Selection of Rehabilitation Care Following Acute Stroke: A Predictive Correlational Study.

Background and Purpose Patients with stroke have to receive the rehabilitation care after medical condition has stabilized. In recent years, the long-term care policy offers more options available for rehabilitation care after stroke. However, the selection of care is mainly based on physcicians' advice. This study explores the factors and preferences in patient selection of rehabilitation care following acute stroke, in order to help clinical health professionals incorporate patients' preferences in patient-centred care to properly arrange the stroke rehabilitation care.

Methods This is a cross-sectional and predictive study. Purposive sampling of patients surviving acute stroke is taken in the general ward of a medical center in northern Taiwan. Data are collected with patients' characteristics, National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS), Barthel Index (BI), Modified Rankin Scale (mRS), and factors and preferences in patient selection of rehabilitation care questionnaire. Data are analyzed using IBM SPSS 26.0 for windows. Demographic and clinical characteristics, family support systems and health care systems are compared between patients' preference in the selections of rehabilitation care. Variables with p < .05 are included as potential predictor variables in the subsequent logistic regression analysis. The level of statistical significance is set at α=0.05.

Expected results Demographic and clinical characteristics, family support systems and health care systems are expected as potential predictors of patients' preference in the selection of rehabilitation care.

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Key information

Conditions

Acute Stroke Behavior Brain Diseases Cardiovascular Diseases Central Nervous System Diseases Cerebrovascular Disorders Health Behavior Nervous System Diseases Patient Preference Patient Satisfaction Stroke Treatment Adherence and Compliance Vascular Diseases

Age range

18 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Observational

Primary location

National Taiwan University Hospital

Taipei, Taiwan

Location status: Recruiting

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • Age≧18 years old.
  • Patients with stroke (International Classification of Disease, ICD 10th edition I60-I68, G45-G46) diagnosed by physicians within 2 weeks after the onset of stroke, including the first and second strokes.

Exclusion criteria

  • Those with a score of 5 on the Modified Rankin Scale (mRS).
  • Those who have been accepted as research subjects have been admitted to hospital again for stroke.
  • People living in rehabilitation wards.
  • Those with unstable vital signs.
  • Those receiving palliative care or care.
  • Patients or family members who cannot communicate in Chinese or Taiwanese.

Treatment and study plan

Questionnaire

Other

This is a Relation Research. Use the patient decision aids for acute stroke rehabilitation, then data are collected with patients' characteristics, National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS), Barthel Index (BI), Modified Rankin Scale (mRS), and factors and preferences in the patient selection of rehabilitation care questionnaire.

Primary outcomes

  1. Patient preferences questionnaire

    Time frame: 2025/1/31

    Patient preferences include：post-acute care, inpatient rehabilitation, outpatientrehabilitation, reablement at home.

Secondary outcomes

  1. Patients' characteristics

    Time frame: 2025/1/31

    Questionnaire include:gender, age, comorbidities, indwelling line, stroke type, day-onset stroke, times of stroke, pre-stroke functional level.

  2. Stroke severity

    Time frame: 2025/1/31

    National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) The NIHSS score ranges from 0 to 42,with higher scores indicating greater severity of stroke symptoms.

  3. Activities of Daily Living

    Time frame: 2025/1/31

    Barthel Index (BI) It refers to the following 10 categories: feeding, bathing, grooming, dressing, bowel control, bladder control, toileting, chair transfer, ambulation and stair climbing. Items are weighted according to the level of nursing care required and are rated in terms of whether individuals can perform activities independently, with some assistance, or are dependent (scored as 10, 5 or 0).

  4. Level of post-stroke functional independence

    Time frame: 2025/1/31

    Modified Rankin Scale (mRS). It consisted of a single item, with five grades representing no, slight, moderate, moderately severe, and severe disability.

  5. Factors and preferences in patient selection of rehabilitation

    Time frame: 2025/1/31

    Questionnaire include:

  6. social circumstances

    Time frame: 2025/01/31

    Questionnaire include:

Study contacts

Contact information is provided by the study sponsor or research team.

Li Ying-Ru, University

CONTACT

[email protected]

02-23123456 ext. 272288

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

National Taiwan University Hospital

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Registry information

Official study title

Factors and Preferences in Patient Selection of Rehabilitation Care Following Acute Stroke

Important dates

Study start
2023
Primary completion
2025
Study completion
2025
First posted
Jul 28, 2025
Registry last updated
Jul 28, 2025

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