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

NCT ID: NCT04197258

Last Updated: 2025-05-25

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: RECRUITING
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 40 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2020-10-09
• Study Completion Date: 2026-12-05

Brief Summary

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

Stroke

Study Design

• Allocation Method: NON_RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

intervention group

For 6 months after discharge, patients in the intervention group will benefit from peer support by a trained patient (number and frequency of contacts defined according to the patient's needs).

The intervention aims to improve the patient's ability to manage his or her situation and meet his or her needs upon discharge at home, including identifying and seeking for the necessary health or social resources

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Peer support

Intervention Type: OTHER

The intervention studied is the psycho-social support by a peer-helper to the patients and their main informal caregiver during the return home following a stay in rehabilitation center for a stroke.

Peer support intervention will be based on evidence, Bandura's social learning and social support theory, and the results of our ongoing study of the needs of patients and their caregivers as a result of returning home (Stroke69). It will include a meeting before the discharge and a regular follow-up for 6 months (face-to-face meetings, virtual or by phone), adapted to the needs of the patient and his caregiver, taking into account the social environment and in connection with the devices existing sanitary and social.

control group

Patients included in the control group before intervention will receive the usual practices. As part of the study, they will be contacted for data collection 6 months after the transition to home by a clinical research associate.

Group Type: NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

Peer support

The intervention studied is the psycho-social support by a peer-helper to the patients and their main informal caregiver during the return home following a stay in rehabilitation center for a stroke.

Peer support intervention will be based on evidence, Bandura's social learning and social support theory, and the results of our ongoing study of the needs of patients and their caregivers as a result of returning home (Stroke69). It will include a meeting before the discharge and a regular follow-up for 6 months (face-to-face meetings, virtual or by phone), adapted to the needs of the patient and his caregiver, taking into account the social environment and in connection with the devices existing sanitary and social.

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Adult patient,
• Having had a first confirmed, ischemic or hemorrhagic stroke
• Managed in the participating rehabilitation center
• Whose discharge to home directly from the rehabilitation center is planned
• Presenting a modified Rankin score of 1 to 3 when deciding to leave the stroke center
• Having given its written consent
• Whose main residence is located in the Rhône department
• Aphasic patients may be included if a caregiver can follow up with the case manager

Exclusion Criteria

• Patient living in an institution prior to stroke
• included in a gerontological network before stroke
• Patient unable to understand quality of life questionnaires
• Patient with unstable medical or psychological conditions who, in the opinion of the investigator, could lead the subject to be non-compliant or uncooperative during the study or could compromise patient safety or participation in the study
• Patient under guardianship or curatorship
• Patient not affiliated to a social health insurance

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Hospices Civils de Lyon

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Locations

Hôpital Henry Gabrielle

Saint-Genis-Laval, , France

Site Status: RECRUITING

Countries

France

Central Contacts

Julie Haesebaert, MD

Role: CONTACT

julie.haesebaert01@chu-lyon.fr

472684905 ext. +33

Anne Termoz

Role: CONTACT

anne.termoz@chu-lyon.fr

427856300 ext. +33

Facility Contacts

Gilles RODE, Pr

Role: primary

gilles.rode@chu-lyon.fr

4 78 86 50 66 ext. +33

Other Identifiers

69HCL19_0233

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id