Stroke research priorities

Who it’s for: Survivors of stroke, family members or carers, health professionals/researchers
What it involves: Survey, workshop

Summary

Stroke Foundation, working with the Centre of Research Excellence to Accelerate Stroke Trial Innovation and Translation (Stroke Trials CRE), aims to align research with the needs of those affected by stroke. We are doing this to:

• Guide Stroke Foundation’s work
• Address community-identified priorities through our research program
• Set national research priorities for stroke – this will help researchers argue for funding to do the research most important to you.

Eligibility

You can complete this survey if you are over 18 years old, live in Australia and are either a:

• survivor of stroke
• family member, carer or support crew for someone who has had a stroke
• health professional or researcher working in the area of stroke.

Activity

There are two (2) phases to this research:

1. Rank research priorities in an online survey

• The survey will include a shortlist of research topics under 3 areas of stroke care: “Prevention”, “Early Treatment” and “Rehabilitation and Life After Stroke”.
• You’ll be asked to rank these in order of importance.
• The survey can be completed online, or if you prefer, we can post you a copy of the survey with a reply paid envelope.
• Our team are available for any questions and to help with completing the survey.

Access the survey

2. Workshop phase
At the end of the survey, you can decide if you’d like to be invited to participate in a facilitated workshop. The workshop will be an interaction session that aims to get agreement on the priority research topics.

Document

Participant information sheet [PDF 187 KB]

Contact

Michelle Adamson, Research Coordinator
Email: research@strokefoundation.org.au
Phone: 03 9918 7215