Carer Involvement in Exercises for People With Acquired Brain Injury.

Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust20 enrolled

Overview

Increasing the amount of exercises completed has been shown to help recovery for people after a brain injury. This study will explore if providing extra training of exercises prescribed to a patient and carer team, will allow more practice of these exercises, better abilities to move and balance, and to assess if carer confidence changes with doing this. It is a repeated case design in the in-patient acute Neurosciences setting at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital NHS Trust (NNUH).

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

Purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

NONE

Enrollment

Conditions

Acquired Brain Injury (Including Stroke)

Interventions

five exercises prescribed and taught to carers and participantsBEHAVIORAL

Up to five exercises prescribed and taught to carers and participants in an acute hospital setting fort hem to continue to practice as able.

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 18 Years

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion * Adults with acquired brain injury on NNUH Neurosciences Unit with a carer physically able to complete exercises with the patient. * Patient to be able to follow simple commands (1 stage) for exercise intervention. * Patient able to consent along with their relative together to participation in the study. Exclusion: * Discharge plan for ESD from initial assessment with no care package required due to too short timeframe of being an acute in-patient. * Patient's with severe cognitive - communication deficits meaning they cannot follow 1 stage command for exercises or consent to the study. * Severe pain, joint abnormality or spasticity limiting participation in exercise programme. * Carer/relative not able to physically help the patient with the required exercises or carer/relative not able to consent to the study.

Locations (1)

Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Norwich, United Kingdom

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Log of exercise repetitions

Log of exercise repetitions completed by patient and relative/carer team (on exercise record log), VAS score (Visual analogue score) rating 0- no confidence to 10- very confident for carer confidence pre and post intervention.

Time frame: Pre and post intervention: 4 weeks or at point of discharge from acute Trust.

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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