Exploring Preferences for Rehabilitation After Stroke

Sustaining a stroke is a devastating neurological event potentially resulting in physical and cognitive impairments, functional limitations, psychosocial distress and/or secondary complications. Access to acute and post-acute rehabilitation that is specialised, timely and patient-centred is essential to minimise the effects of stroke-related impairments, maximise recovery and optimise community participation. The provision of rehabilitation can occur in a specialist acute hospital ward, such as a stroke unit, a specialist rehabilitation hospital as an inpatient, a home-based rehabilitation service where therapy teams visit the home, or as an outpatient where the patient visits the centre or hospital to receive their program. This project aims to investigate patient preferences regarding rehabilitation for stroke. An online questionnaire will be used as a discrete choice experiment (DCE) survey to explore the preferences of patients with stroke.