Self-rehabilitation strategy for rural community-dwelling stroke survivors in a lower-middle income country: a modified Delphi study

Rabiu Ibrahim, Conran Joseph, Aimée Stewart and Isa Usman Lawal

PLOS ONE, 2025, vol. 20, issue 2, 1-18

Abstract: Background: More than half of stroke survivors in lower-middle income countries lack access to stroke rehabilitation services. The promotion of self-rehabilitation could be promising for addressing stroke rehabilitation inadequacies in lower-middle income countries. Self-rehabilitation interventions are more readily acceptable to community-dwelling stroke survivors, and therefore, have the potential to boost the successful realization of the Sustainable Development Goals and other WHO rehabilitation goals. We report a consensus-building process that sought to identify which task trainings are relevant to include in a task-specific self-rehabilitation strategy for rural community-dwelling stroke survivors. Methods: An iterative two-stage mixed-method consensus-building approach was used: (1) focus group discussions (n = 5) with rural community-dwelling chronic stroke survivors were conducted to explore personal life experiences in performing daily activities, and the results were used to develop a list of candidate task trainings that could be included in a task-specific self-rehabilitation intervention model for improving functional ability of survivors; (2) a three-round Delphi exercise with a panel of stroke rehabilitation experts to establish consensus on the importance/relevance of the developed task trainings. Consensus was pre-defined to be the point where the proportion of items given a rating of 3 (quite relevant) or 4 (highly relevant) by expert panellists is ≥ 0.8. Kendall’s coefficient of concordance (W) was used to assess the level of agreement among the expert panellists. Results: A list of 74 task trainings was generated from the results of the focus group discussions involving 29 chronic stroke survivors. The tasks were classified as follows: training for the upper extremity (37); lower extremity training (21); trunk training (7); and balance training (9). A panel of 13 stroke rehabilitation experts reviewed these task trainings using the Delphi method and consensus was reached on keeping 28 task trainings in the first round (Kendall’s W = 0.252, p

Date: 2025
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