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NCT03165630: SPORT

Stroke Patients' Outpatient Rehabilitation Therapy (SPORT)

Completed NA Last updated 26 February 2020
What this trial tests

NA trial testing Transportation incentives in Stroke in 266 participants. Completed in 30 November 2019.

Timeline
26 May 2017
Primary endpoint
30 November 2019
30 November 2019

Quick facts

Lead sponsorNational University of Singapore
PhaseNA
StatusCompleted
Study typeINTERVENTIONAL
Allocationrandomized
Designparallel
Maskingsingle
Primary purposehealth services research
Enrollment266
Start date26 May 2017
Primary completion30 November 2019
Estimated completion30 November 2019
Sites1 location across Singapore

Drugs / interventions tested

Conditions studied

Sponsor

National University of Singapore

Who can join

Adults 55 to 100, any sex, with Stroke or Incentives. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

Background: Stroke is the leading cause of long-term disability in Singapore, and studies have found that intensive specialized stroke rehabilitation can improve post-stroke functional outcomes for a substantial proportion of stroke patients. However, despite the benefits associated with adherence to prescribed rehabilitation, the uptake rate of outpatient rehabilitation services (ORS) in Singapore is only 33%. According to local longitudinal studies, the financial burden of out-of-pocket service costs and the inconvenient transportation from home to rehabilitation centres are important barriers to access to ORS. Objective: To examine the effect and cost-effectiveness of providing incentives for ORS to improve the uptake of ORS compared to usual care (control) with no incentives Hypothesis: An evidence-based program to test the effectiveness of providing incentives to alleviate the financial burden as well as inconvenience of transportation for ORS will improve the uptake of and adherence to ORS among stroke patients. Methodology: This study is an individual-based randomized controlled trial (RCT) of 300 stroke patients recruited from Singapore General Hospital (SGH) and Changi General Hospital (CGH). They will be randomized to one of three study arms (education only, free transportation, and free services and transportation) and interviewed at the time of recruitment and four months after the enrolment in the study. Participants' health conditions, socioeconomic situation, health \& medical services utilization, stroke-related disability measures, quality of life, and reasons for uptake/rejection/withdraw from the services will be collected during both baseline and the 4th month assessments. Significance: As the first study in Singapore to test innovative ways to increase the stroke ORS uptake rates, it will provide evidence for future policy changes in financing outpatient rehabilitation and other long-term care services in Singapore. It will also provide important empirical parameter estimates for Systems Dynamics modelling of the demand and supply of ORS in Singapore.

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