Clinical trial NCT03948906: Stroke and Rehabilitation in North of Norway and Central Denmark
Official title: Comparing Post-stroke Functioning and Rehabilitation Pathways in a Region of North of Norway and a Region of Denmark. A Prospective Cohort Study.
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: UNKNOWN
Conditions: Stroke, Acute
Keywords: Stroke
Observational study
Rehabilitation
Health related quality of life
Lead sponsor: University Hospital of North Norway
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Regionshospitalet Hammel Neurocenter
First posted: 2019-05-14
Enrollment: 815
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Observational model: COHORT
Time perspective: PROSPECTIVE
Sampling method: PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: Adult patients with ischemic or hemorrhagic stroke

Brief summary: Post-stroke prospective multicenter cohort study. The objectives of the study was to compare functioning and health related quality of life in the two study regions, in relation to known predictors and to differences in organization of treatment- and rehabilitation. The inclusion was of consecutive acute stroke patients with ICD10 diagnosis I.63 and I.61 from a regional part of Northern Norway and Jylland Denmark. All were referred to stroke units. At baseline national stroke registry data were collected in each country. A questionnaire package was mailed to the participants 3- and 12-months post stroke. Telephone interviews at 3 months post stroke added information on functioning and rehabilitation.

Detailed description: Post-stroke prospective multicenter cohort study. The objectives of the study was to compare functioning and health related quality of life in the two study regions, in relation to known predictors and to differences in organization of treatment- and rehabilitation. The inclusion was of consecutive acute stroke patients with ICD10 diagnosis I.63 and I.61 from a regional part of Northern Norway and Jylland Denmark. All were referred to stroke units. At baseline national stroke registry data were collected in each country. Telephone interviews at 3 months post stroke added information on functioning and rehabilitation. A questionnaire package was mailed to the participants 3- and 12-months post stroke. These included validated Questionnaires like QOLIBRI-OS, HADS, SS-QOL and EQ5D.

Validity studies on QOLIBRI-OS and SS-QOL has been published, along with several other papers. Synne Garder Pedersen and Guri Heiberg have finished their PhDs.

Eligibility criteria: * Clinical diagnosis acute ischemic or hemmorhagic stroke
* Inclusion period Mars 2014 to January 2016
* Hospitalised in Stroke Units
* Living in a defined geographic area in North of Norway or in Central Denmark

Primary outcomes:
measure: HRQOL
timeFrame: 2014- 2016
Secondary outcomes:
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References:
citation: Pedersen SG, Heiberg GA, Nielsen JF, Friborg O, Stabel HH, Anke A, Arntzen C. Validity, reliability and Norwegian adaptation of the Stroke-Specific Quality of Life (SS-QOL) scale. SAGE Open Med. 2018 Jan 8;6:2050312117752031. doi: 10.1177/2050312117752031. eCollection 2018.
citation: Heiberg G, Pedersen SG, Friborg O, Nielsen JF, Holm HS, Steinbuchel von N, Arntzen C, Anke A. Can the health related quality of life measure QOLIBRI- overall scale (OS) be of use after stroke? A validation study. BMC Neurol. 2018 Jul 18;18(1):98. doi: 10.1186/s12883-018-1101-9.