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Patel, Kulsum, Watkins, Caroline Leigh
ORCID: 0000-0002-9403-3772, Benedetto, Valerio
ORCID: 0000-0002-4683-0777, Blow, Amelia, Bowen, Audrey, Cant, Robin, Clegg, Andrew
ORCID: 0000-0001-8938-7819, Daniels, Leanne, Eccles, Samantha et al
(2026)
The effectiveness of a motivational interviewing-based intervention for reducing depressive symptoms after stroke compared to an attention control and usual care: study protocol for a multi-centre randomised controlled trial (COMMITS).
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Patel, Kulsum, Holland, Emma-Joy, Watkins, Caroline Leigh
ORCID: 0000-0002-9403-3772, Bowen, Audrey, Read, Jessica, Thomas, Shirley, Roberts, Temitayo and Lightbody, Catherine Elizabeth
ORCID: 0000-0001-5016-3471
(2025)
Exploring staff perspectives on implementing an intervention package for post-stroke psychological support: a qualitative study.
Psychology International, 7
(3).
p. 65.
Radford, Kathryn A, Grant, Mary I, Holmes, Jain A, Phillips, Julie, Powers, Kathryn, Chambers, Rachel L, Craven, Kristelle, Bell, Brian, McKevitt, Christopher et al (2025) Development and description of Early Stroke Specialist Vocational Rehabilitation (ESSVR) delivered in the Return to work after stroke (RETAKE) Trial. Health Technology Assessment . ISSN 1366-5278
Radford, Kathryn, Wright-Hughes, Alexandra, Clarke, David, Phillips, Julie, Holmes, Jain, Powers, Kathryn, Trusson, Diane, Craven, Kristelle, Thompson, Ellen et al (2025) Early stroke specialist vocational rehabilitation for return to work after stroke: a synopsis from the RETAKE RCT. Health Technology Assessment . ISSN 1366-5278
Lightbody, Catherine Elizabeth
ORCID: 0000-0001-5016-3471, Patel, Kulsum, Holland, Emma-Joy, Sutton, Chris J
ORCID: 0000-0002-6406-1318, Brown, Christopher, Tishkovskaya, Svetlana
ORCID: 0000-0003-3087-6380, Bowen, Audrey, Read, Jessica, Thomas, Shirley et al
(2025)
Accelerating Delivery of Psychological Therapies after Stroke: A Feasibility Stepped Wedge Cluster Randomised Controlled Trial.
Healthcare, 13
(7).
p. 824.
Radford, Kathryn Alice, Wright-Hughes, Alexandra, Thompson, Ellen, Clarke, David J, Phillips, Julie, Holmes, Jain, Powers, Kathryn E, Trusson, Diane, Craven, Kristelle et al (2025) Effectiveness of early vocational rehabilitation versus usual care to support RETurn to work After stroKE: a pragmatic, parallel arm multi-centre, randomised-controlled trial. International Journal of Stroke, 20 (4). pp. 471-485. ISSN 1747-4930
Trusson, Diane, Powers, Katie, Radford, Kathryn, Bowen, Audrey, Craven, Kristelle, Holmes, Jain, Lindley, Rebecca, McKevitt, Christopher, Phillips, Julie et al (2025) Experiences of support to return to work after stroke: longitudinal case studies from RETAKE trial. Health Technology Assessment . ISSN 1366-5278
Pyne, Sarah, Sach, Tracey, Cameron, Roy, Risebro, Helen, Wright-Hughes, Alexandra, Thompson, Ellen, Watkins, Caroline Leigh
ORCID: 0000-0002-9403-3772, Bowen, Audrey, Stevens, Judith et al
(2025)
Cost consequences analysis of early vocational rehabilitation compared with usual care for stroke survivors.
Clinical Rehabilitation, 39
(2).
pp. 161-173.
ISSN 0269-2155
Clarke, David James, Powers, Katie, Trusson, Diane, Craven, Kristelle, Phillips, Julie, Holmes, Jain, McKevitt, Christopher, Bowen, Audrey, Watkins, Caroline Leigh
ORCID: 0000-0002-9403-3772 et al
(2024)
The RETurn to work After stroKE (RETAKE) trial: Findings from a mixed-methods process evaluation of the Early Stroke Specialist Vocational Rehabilitation (ESSVR) intervention.
PLOS ONE, 19
(10).
Radford, Kathryn A, McKevitt, Christopher, Clarke, Sara, Powers, Katie, Phillips, Julie, Craven, Kristelle, Watkins, Caroline Leigh
ORCID: 0000-0002-9403-3772, Farrin, Amanda, Holmes, Jain et al
(2022)
RETurn to work After stroKE (RETAKE) Trial: protocol for a mixed-methods process evaluation using normalisation process theory.
BMJ Open, 12
(3).
e053111.
ISSN 2044-6055
Radford, Kathryn, King, Kristelle, McLellan, Vicki, Sach, Tracey, Brindle, Richard, Holloway, Ivana, Hartley, Suzanne, Bowen, Audrey, O'Connor, Rory et al (2020) An individually randomised controlled multi-centre pragmatic trial with embedded economic and process evaluations of early vocational rehabilitation compared with usual care for stroke survivors: study protocol for the RETurn to work After stroKE (RETAKE) trial. Trials, 21 (1010).
Bowen, Audrey, Hesketh, Anne, Patchick, Emma, Young, Alys, Davies, Linda, Vail, Andy, Long, Andrew F., Watkins, Caroline Leigh
ORCID: 0000-0002-9403-3772, Wilkinson, Mo et al
(2013)
Clarification of conclusions from the ACT NoW trial.
Nature Reviews Neurology, 9
(2).
p. 118.
ISSN 1759-4758
Bowen, Audrey, Hesketh, Anne, Patchick, Emma, Young, Alys, Davies, Linda, Vail, Andy, Long, Andrew F, Watkins, Caroline Leigh
ORCID: 0000-0002-9403-3772, Wilkinson, Mo et al
(2012)
Speech therapy after stroke. Authors’ reply to Enderby, Meteyard, and Thornton.
British Medical Journal, 345
.
e6023.
ISSN 0959-8138
Bowen, Audrey, Hesketh, Anne, Patchick, Emma, Young, Alys, Davies, Linda, Vail, Andy, Long, Andrew F, Watkins, Caroline
ORCID: 0000-0002-9403-3772, Wilkinson, Mo et al
(2012)
Effectiveness of enhanced communication therapy in the first four months after stroke for aphasia and dysarthria: a randomised controlled trial.
British Medical Journal, 345
(7868).
e4407.
ISSN 0959-8138