For patients
Help us find out if our ROWTATE programme works
Your Contribution to the ROWTATE Programme is Invaluable – Thank You for Taking Part
The ROWTATE programme is recruiting over 700 patients with serious injuries from eight Major Trauma Centres around the UK. The centres are:
- Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge
- Leeds General Infirmary
- Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham
- Royal London Hospital
- Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle
- Southampton General Hospital
- Southmead Hospital, Bristol
- St Mary’s Hospital, London
Our research study aims to find out whether specialised support from an Occupational Therapist (OT) can be useful in helping people back into work or education following serious injury. OTs are specialists in helping people to gain or regain the function needed to be independent and lead a fulfilling life.
To find out if OT support does help getting people back to work or education we will first divide patients who agree to take part in our research into two groups of equal size. Which group you are allocated to will be decided by chance.
The first group will receive the specialised OT support for a period of up to twelve months. The OT will determine how your injury affects you and your job or education and what changes may be needed to help you return to work or education. Most contact with the OT will be via video and phone calls. The OT will also contact your employer or education provider to help them understand what support they should provide to enable you to make a successful return to work or education.
If returning to your previous job or education is no longer suitable, the OT will advise you what other options may be suitable. If you need support with emotional difficulties the OT can refer you to a specially trained psychologist.
You will also continue to receive the treatment you would normally be offered from the NHS to help you recover from your injury.
As part of the research, we'd like to hear your views about whether the specialist OT support is proving helpful to you. We will ask you to complete a questionnaire when you first join the study and 3, 6 and 12 months later. We may also invite you to take part in an interview where you will have an opportunity to give your views in more detail.
The second group of patients is equally important for our study to be successful. You will receive all treatment normally offered by the NHS to help you recover and return to work or education but without the specialised OT support. This is so that we can compare return to work or education between people who did receive the OT support and people who didn’t receive the OT support, to see if it helps return to work or education.
We will ask you to complete a questionnaire when you first join the study and 3, 6 and 12 months later. You will play a vital part in our study and will not lose anything through being involved.
Thank you to all who take part in the ROWTATE study. Whichever group you are in your help is essential. We hope the study will lead in the future to extra help to return to work or education being offered to the very large number of people who experience serious injury every year.
If you are taking part in the ROWTATE programme and would like any more information, or have any questions, please contact:
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