Supporting Self-employment in Young Adults With Stroke
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In plain language
An automatic summary of structured registry data. It is an orientation aid, not a substitute for the official protocol or a physician assessment.
- What is being studied
- The protocol lists: Self-employment support intervention.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Stroke. Basic parameters: 18 years — 64 years · All.
- What needs checking
- Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
- Where it takes place
- Hong Kong
- Next step
- Save the trial, show it to the treating physician, and confirm current recruitment with the study center. Costs, documents and travel →
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Official title
Supporting Self-employment in Working-age Stroke Survivors
Overview
This project will investigate the effects of an 8-week theory-driven online/hybrid Self-employment Skill Building Intervention on the rate of self-employment, self-efficacy, life satisfaction, and psychosocial outcomes among working-age stroke survivors.
Detailed description
A 2-arm randomised controlled trial will be conducted. Individuals aged 18-65 years old, with a first-ever/recurrent ischaemic/haemorrhagic stroke, and unemployed for at least 6 months will be recruited. Eligible participants will be randomly assigned to receive usual care or a new intervention with usual care. The intervention is aimed at assisting survivors in becoming self-employed by developing entrepreneurial skills. Outcomes including self-employment rate, self-efficacy, life satisfaction, emotional well-being, and community reintegration at baseline, immediately and 3 months after completing the intervention. Semi-structured interviews will be conducted with participants to elicit feedback on SSI.
Interventions
- Other Self-employment support intervention
A new intervention developed to assist stroke survivors in becoming self-employed by developing entrepreneurial skills. It consists of one home visit, three online individual sessions, and four online group sessions held once a week for eight weeks.
Primary outcome measures
- Self-employment rate [Time frame: Change from baseline level to three months after completion of the intervention]
Secondary outcome measures (4)
- Self-efficacy [Time frame: Change from baseline level to three months after completion of the intervention]
- Life satisfaction [Time frame: Change from baseline level to three months after completion of the intervention]
- Emotional well-being [Time frame: Change from baseline level to three months after completion of the intervention]
- Community reintegration [Time frame: Change from baseline level to three months after completion of the intervention]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
- 18-65 years old at the time of recruitment
- been clinically diagnosed with a first-ever/recurrent ischaemic/haemorrhagic stroke
- a Montreal Cognitive Assessment score (MoCA) >2nd percentile
- a paid job (full-time/part-time) at the recent onset of stroke
- been unemployed (not in paid, full-time/part-time job) for ≥6 months at the time of recruitment
- able to communicate in Cantonese and read Traditional Chinese.
Exclusion criteria
- diagnosed with transient ischaemic attack
- cerebrovascular events due to tumour
- diagnosed with a mental condition for example depression or schizophrenia
- incomprehensible speech
- receiving or awaiting to receive vocational programmes
- self-employed at the time of recruitment or planning to retire
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: No
Study design
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Model
- Parallel assignment
- Masking
- Single blind
- Primary purpose
- Health services research
Study locations
Hong Kong · 1 center
- Non-government organisations — Hong Kong
Identifiers
NCT: NCT06369051 · YSEmploy