Qualitative Analysis of the Post-Stroke Continuum Among African Stroke Survivors in Alabama

Stroke Clinical Trial

Official title:

Qualitative Analysis of the Post-Stroke Continuum Among African Stroke Survivors in Alabama

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Withdrawn

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT05350488
• Other study ID #: 300009035
• Status: Withdrawn
• Start date: February 1, 2023
• Est. completion date: February 28, 2023

Study information

• Verified date: July 2023
• Source: University of Alabama at Birmingham
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational [Patient Registry]

Clinical Trial Summary

This proposal seeks to improve the investigators' post-stroke TOC process through developing an innovative, patient informed and guided solution aimed at addressing the investigators' deep south African American population within the UAB system. The investigators will engage participants in both urban and rural Alabama through informational interviews and work to find common themes to address so that future interventions are useful to their unique needs and desires. This goes beyond simply identifying barriers and endeavors to discovering solutions.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Withdrawn
• Enrollment: 0
• Est. completion date: February 28, 2023
• Est. primary completion date: February 28, 2023
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 40 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

1. African American

2. Aged 40 years and older

3. Required home health therapy, outpatient therapy, skilled nursing facility or inpatient rehabilitation

4. Alabama Resident

5. Fluent in English

6. Stroke confirmed by advanced imaging (CT, MRI)

7. Zoom capability (participants can either have video conference ability or can call into Zoom line)

8. Caregivers must be identified by patients as providing a significant portion of care and/or be able to articulate their role as a caregiver

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Did not require home health therapy, outpatient therapy or inpatient rehabilitation

2. Long term residents of skilled nursing facility

3. Severe aphasia

4. Severe cognitive impairments

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Caregiver Burden
• Disability Physical
• Patient Satisfaction
• Stroke

Intervention

Other:
• Informational Interview
Interview topics will fall in the broad categories of assessing medical knowledge and understanding of stroke, knowledge of medical and community resources, understanding and experience of post-stroke rehabilitation barriers faced upon reintegrating back home and ability to continue management of stroke diagnosis and suggestions for improvement.
• Focus Group
Focus group topics will fall into the same broad categories as the informational interviews, however will be asked from a caregiver's perspective

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
n/a

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of Alabama at Birmingham

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Feasibility of recruitment and retention	The investigators will screen 60-100 individuals with the goal of enrolling a total of 20 AA (African American) stroke survivors +/- their identified caregivers. Historically, there has been low recruitment and retention rates for AAs. The investigators plan to over-recruit in order to account for this phenomenon and track our success/failure rates with percent retained vs recruited.	July 1,2022-January 20, 2023
Primary	Ability to use Zoom platform	The Zoom platform is becoming a more popular avenue to conduct qualitative interviews for research purposes among researchers and participants. The investigators will evaluate if this reported phenomenon is reproducible within this particular research cohort. Success will measured by a 50% or greater completion of interview and the ability to successfully connect to the zoom platform either via smart device or telephone dial in. The investigators will also document any technical difficulties that are encountered from either the interviewer's standpoint or the participant's standpoint.	July 1,2022-January 20, 2023
Primary	Validity of questions asked to arrive at the themes that will appropriately inform the basis of this proposal	We will extract data from transcriptions of participants' Zoom interviews and perform thematic analysis	February 2023-May 2023