Rehabilitation Training Participated by Caregivers in Ischemic Stroke: a Randomized Controlled Trial to Test the Effect of Home-based Rehabilitation Intervention on Physical Function.

The knowledge provider was a multi-disciplinary home-based rehabilitation nursing team, which is composed of advanced practice nurse (APN) who engaged in professional rehabilitation of stroke, neurologists, rehabilitation doctors and physical therapists. Among them, APN mainly carry out and supervise family rehabilitation education and all members are collectively responsible for the adjustment and optimization of the program content. After the assessment is completed, the patient's current functional status will be confirmed. based on this, team members recommend home-exercise items that match the patient's motor function state . In this intervention programme, the content of the intervention was developed based on the recommendations of internationally published guidelines related to the rehabilitation of ischemic patients, with some adjustments to consider the cultural appropriateness of implementation in China.

the patients in this group will be routinely given post-discharge health education, such as secondary prevention measures, education on medication adherence, universal guidance on the content of home care, universal rehabilitation-related education such as correct limb positioning, post-discharge precautions, and medical referral-related assistance.