Aspirational Rehabilitation Coaching for Holistic Health (ARCH): A Pilot Pre-Post Evaluation of Psychosocial Recovery in First-Time Stroke Survivors and Family Caregivers
The ARCH programme is a novel, strength-based, dyadic, multicomponent psychosocial intervention that blends together psychoeducation, psychosocial support and self-compassion practices to aid first-time stroke survivors and their family caregivers with their psycho-socio-emotional and spiritual challenges following discharge from in-patient care. A pre-post experimental design with a feasibility and acceptability assessment is adopted to evaluate and refine the ARCH intervention in promoting wellbeing, self-compassion, independence, quality of life, hope, resilience, self-efficacy and dyadic mutuality.
• Aged 21 years and above
• Recovering from their first stroke at mild to moderate degree of severity
• Discharged from inpatient care at no later than 3 months,
• Clinically assessed to have cognitive capacities to engage in and complete the research study,
• Language capabilities in English or Mandarin, and
• One identified primary family caregiver aged 21 years and above with similar language capabilities.