Eligibility Module
The Eligibility Module contains detailed information about who can participate in the clinical trial. This includes eligibility criteria, age restrictions, gender requirements, healthy volunteer status, and study population descriptions, helping researchers understand who is eligible to participate in the study.
Eligibility Module path is as follows:
Study -> Protocol Section -> Eligibility Module
Eligibility Module
Ignite Creation Date:
2025-12-25 @ 5:07 AM
Ignite Modification Date:
2025-12-25 @ 5:07 AM
NCT ID:
NCT03551327
Eligibility Criteria:
Inclusion Criteria:
* Age ≥ 18 years
* Stroke 3 months to 2 years previously. Both ischaemic and haemorrhagic, including subarachnoid haemorrhage
* Capacity to consent
* Not living in nursing home.
* Medically stable,
* Answers 'Yes' to both the following questions about fatigue
* 'Do you feel tired all the time or get tired very quickly since your stroke'?
* Would you like additional help and support for this?
Exclusion Criteria:
* Unlikely to be available for follow-up for the next 6 months e.g. no fixed home address
* Other life-threatening illness (e.g. advanced cancer or advanced heart failure) that will make survival for 6 months unlikely
* Aphasia or cognitive impairment which is severe enough to prevent participation in the intervention. To assess this, patients will self-report their language and cognition from the relevant domains in the Short Stroke Impact Scale ('In the past week, how difficult was it for you to think quickly?' and 'In the past week, how difficult was it to understand what was being said to you in a conversation?') Those who respond 'very difficult' or 'could not do at all' to either question will be excluded. (24). Those who might be in these categories are likely to be unable to complete the form(s) and thus self-select to decline to return the paperwork.
* Actively suicidal, requiring in-patient treatment for depression, depression related cognitive impairment. (see below)
* High anxiety as part of a post-traumatic stress disorder syndrome or panic disorder (see below)
* Previously enrolled in this trial
* Enrolled in another talking therapy trial
* Inability to understand spoken and/or written English
Healthy Volunteers:
False
Sex:
ALL
Minimum Age:
18 Years
Study:
NCT03551327
Study Brief:
Protocol Section:
NCT03551327