Grip strength and frailty in stroke- feasability study

  • Research type

    Research Study

  • Full title

    Grip strength and measures of frailty in relation to stroke outcomes – a feasibility study

  • IRAS ID

    212368

  • Contact name

    Dipankar Dutta

  • Contact email

    dipankar.dutta@glos.nhs.uk

  • Sponsor organisation

    Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

  • Clinicaltrials.gov Identifier

    N/A, N/A

  • Duration of Study in the UK

    1 years, 4 months, 1 days

  • Research summary

    Older people are more likely to have strokes and become disabled as a result. They are also very likely to be frail. Frailty as a concept is increasingly being studied and the relationship between frailty and major illnesses is being researched. Frailty can be considered to be a state of vulnerability to adverse outcomes. There is little information about the interaction of frailty and stroke and the effect of frailty on stroke prognosis has not been studied. In this prospective feasibility study, grip strength and other measures of frailty in older stroke patients will be obtained in order to study the association of frailty with stroke outcomes and ability to make progress with rehabilitation.

  • REC name

    North West - Haydock Research Ethics Committee

  • REC reference

    16/NW/0609

  • Date of REC Opinion

    16 Aug 2016

  • REC opinion

    Favourable Opinion