PERFORM Feasibility Study
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Personalised Exercise-Rehabilitation FOR people with Multiple long-term conditions (multi-morbidity) \nPERFORM: Feasibility study \n\n
IRAS ID
321067
Contact name
Sally Singh
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
University of Leicester
ISRCTN Number
ISRCTN68786622
Duration of Study in the UK
1 years, 0 months, 30 days
Research summary
The current delivery of exercise-based rehabilitation programmes delivered across the UK is fundamentally limited in two important ways:\n(1)\tProvision is dominated by services targeted at cardiovascular and pulmonary conditions, with little or no availability for other LTCs.\n(2)\tExisting rehabilitation programmes are single disease in focus and not designed to consider the complex health needs of people living with multi-morbidity. Furthermore, the workforce are specialists in cardiovascular or pulmonary rehabilitation are not necessarily equipped to manage rehabilitation needs for other long-term conditions or indeed to cope with the co-occurrence of multiple conditions. Therefore, patients with multiple LTCs (alongside their cardiac or respiratory disease) do not benefit fully from a single disease focused programme as they have more complex needs spanning multiple conditions.\nWe propose an innovative integrated approach to rehabilitation that provides equity of access for people with multi-morbidity, and includes a structured programme of supervised exercise training, complex health needs assessment (including medication review), disease(s) education and self-management support: Personalised Exercise Rehabilitation FOR people with Multiple LTCs (PERFORM) intervention.\n\nThis study is comparing a personalised exercise Rehabilitation programme compared to standard of care in patients with 2 or more long term conditions which one they receive will be chosen at random.\n\nParticipants will be randomised to intervention (PERFORM intervention + usual care) or control (usual care alone)\nThe Rehab programme will be provided for 6 weeks twice weekly \nParticipants will be expected to attend 14 study visits
REC name
West Midlands - Edgbaston Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
23/WM/0057
Date of REC Opinion
2 May 2023
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion