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CLAHRC GM wins several prestigious prizes at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Research in Rehabilitation

CLAHRC PhD student Verity Longley has been awarded the prestigious Vera Wright Prize for Best Oral Presentation at this year’s Society for Research in Rehabilitation (SRR) annual meeting for her presentation ‘Stroke and Pre-Existing Cognitive Impairment: a qualitative study of Clinicians’ Experiences’.  The SRR is the major multidisciplinary rehabilitation research society in the UK. Its aim is to advance education and research into all aspects of the rehabilitation of people with disability and to disseminate the useful results of such research for the public benefit. 

At this year’s annual meeting, held in Bristol on February 6th, Verity presented the findings of her work interviewing clinicians working in stroke services about how they provide rehabilitation for patients with pre-stroke dementia. Pre-existing dementia is associated with poorer outcomes after stroke, but there is little guidance about the ideal process of care for these patients.  Verity’s study explored factors influencing clinicians’ decision-making about stroke rehabilitation for people with pre-existing dementia, and the impact on clinical practice. Speaking about her study, Verity said:


“I interviewed 23 members of stroke multidisciplinary teams from acute, post-acute and community settings for this study. We found that decision-making had an impact on clinical practice in that clinicians either accommodated pre-existing dementia/cognitive impairment within the delivery of rehabilitation, or deprioritised such patients for rehabilitation.  Clinicians felt that patients with pre-existing dementia/cognitive impairment had difficulty demonstrating the required rehabilitation potential within the short timescales available in the current model of service delivery.  They also identified a need for training to improve their knowledge and confidence of rehabilitation for this growing subpopulation of stroke survivors, and suggested changes to the current model of stroke rehabilitation and staff training to better suit the needs of stroke patients with pre-existing dementia/cognitive impairments.”


In 2016, another member of the CLAHRC GM team, Claire Mitchell (Research Fellow and Senior Clinical Lecturer), was also the recipient of the Vera Wright prize for her presentation about the use of technology for speech rehabilitation after stroke. 

At the Annual Meeting Emma Patchick was awarded the prize for Best Work in Progress Poster on behalf of the OSCARSS (Organising Support for Carers for Stroke Survivors) study team.  The OSCARSS study, being undertaken in collaboration with the Stroke Association, is currently evaluating the effectiveness of approaches to identify and support carer needs after stroke.


Congratulations to all members of the CLAHRC teams involved!

 

Date Published: 27/03/2018
 

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