Non‐pharmacological interventions for longer‐term stroke survivors or their carers: an overview of Cochrane Reviews

This is a protocol for a Cochrane Review (Overview). The objectives are as follows:

To produce an overview of Cochrane Reviews of non-pharmacological interventions with evidence relevant to community-based longerterm

stroke survivors or their carers, focusing on person-centred outcomes.

This will include:

• identifying types of non-pharmacological interventions that have been evaluated in the longer-term after stroke (included

intervention types), where such a trial has been included in a Cochrane Review;

• identify types of non-pharmacological intervention that may be applicable to the longer-term after stroke but have only been

evaluated in the shorter-term after stroke, where such a trial has been included in a Cochrane Review;

• categorise these intervention types according to the poststroke problems they are directly intended to address, as defined by

Cochrane Review authors;

• identifying the outcomes considered most important (primary outcomes) for included intervention types, as defined by

Cochrane Review authors;

• examining evidence of the effects of included intervention types specific to the longer-term after stroke;

• signposting readers to evidence of effective interventions;

• identifying opportunities for merging or splitting existing Cochrane Reviews.