G-AP | Glasgow Caledonian University

What is this research about?

People who have had a stroke (stroke survivors) have individual hopes for the future and goals they would like to achieve. Rehabilitation aims to help stroke survivors meet these personal goals.

The Goal setting and Action Planning (G-AP) framework

The G-AP framework has been developed to support person-centred, goal-setting practice in rehabilitation settings.

A G-AP online training resource and supplementary webinars have been developed to support rehabilitation staff to deliver G-AP in practice.

A G-AP record, including an accessible version called Access G-AP, has been developed to ensure stroke survivors have an accessible copy of their goals, plans and progress.

What are the aims of this research?

The G-AP programme of research aims to:

Understand how stroke survivors can be supported to pursue their personal goals, including those that may be proving difficult to achieve
Develop different versions of the G-AP record to suit individual stroke survivors’ preferences and abilities
Understand how rehabilitation teams can be supported to implement G-AP in routine practice
Find out if G-AP helps stroke survivors’ recovery and improves the rehabilitation they receive.

Project team

Dr Lesley Scobbie, an Occupational Therapist by background, leads the G-AP programme of research. More information about Lesley is available online.

Eleanor Brown, a Speech and Language therapist by background, completed her PhD, ‘Goal setting accessibility for stroke survivors with aphasia in rehabilitation’, in 2021. Eleanor’s work led to the development of Access G-AP which aims to support stroke survivors with a communication difficulty called aphasia to be optimally involved in the G-AP process. Eleanor can be contacted at: eleanor.brown@mailbox.org.

Katie Elliott, an Occupational Therapist by background, is a PhD student leading a project to understand how rehabilitation teams can be supported to implement G-AP in routine practice. She can be contacted at Katherine.Elliott@gcu.ac.uk

Funders

Publications

Brown SE, Scobbie L, Worrall L, Mc Menamin R & Brady MC (2022) Access G-AP: development of an accessible goal setting and action planning resource for stroke survivors with aphasia, Disability and Rehabilitation, DOI: 10.1080/09638288.2022.2085331.
Brown SE, Scobbie L, Worrall L, Brady MC. (2022) A multinational online survey of the goal-setting practice of rehabilitation staff with stroke survivors with aphasia, Aphasiology, DOI: 10.1080/02687038.2022.2031861
Scobbie L, Thomson K, Pollock K, Evans J. Goal adjustment by people living with long-term conditions: a scoping review of literature published from January 2007 to June 2018. Neuropsychological Rehabilitation. 2020; DOI: 10.1080/09602011.2020.1774397
Scobbie L, Brady MC, Duncan EAS & Wyke S. Goal attainment, adjustment and disengagement in the first year after stroke: A qualitative study. Neuropsychological Rehabilitation. 2020; DOI: 10.1080/09602011.2020.1724803
Scobbie L, Duncan EAS, Brady MC, Wyke S. Facilitators and “deal breakers”: a mixed methods study investigating implementation of the Goal setting and action planning (G-AP) framework in community rehabilitation teams. BMC Health Services Research 20, 791 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-020-05651-2
Brown SE, Brady MC, Worrall L & Scobbie L. A narrative review of communication accessibility for people with aphasia and implications for multi-disciplinary goal setting after stroke. Aphasiology. 2020; DOI: 10.1080/02687038.2020.1759269
Scobbie L, Duncan EAS, Brady MC, & Wyke S. Goal setting practice in services delivering community-based stroke rehabilitation: A United Kingdom (UK) wide survey, Disability and Rehabilitation. 2015, 37:14, 1291- 98, DOI: 10.3109/09638288.2014.961652
Scobbie, L. Dixon, D. A theoretically based approach to goal setting. In: Handbook of Rehabilitation Goal Setting. Edited by Siegert, R., Levack, W. CRC Press 2015.
Scobbie, L., McLean, D., Dixon, D. Wyke S. Implementing a framework for goal setting in community based stroke rehabilitation: a process evaluation. BMC Health Services Res 13, 190, 2013. https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-13-190
Scobbie L, Wyke S. Dixon, D. Goal setting and action planning in clinical rehabilitation: Development of a theoretically informed practice framework. Clinical Rehabilitation. 2011; 25(5) 468–482. DOI: 10.1177/0269215510389198
Scobbie L. Wyke S, Dixon D. Identifying and applying psychological theory to setting and achieving rehabilitation goals. Clinical Rehabilitation 2009; 23:231-333. DOI: 10.1177/026921550910298

Acknowledgements

We would like to thank all individuals and organisations who have contributed to our projects and especially the participants of our individual studies.

Contact us

If you would like to learn more about our research, please get in touch.

Email address: Lesley.Scobbie@gcu.ac.uk

Phone number: +44 (0)141 331 8582

MSc Physiotherapy students demonstrating their care-related duties on Glasgow campus, in October 2021.

SYNERGY

Stroke and Neurological Rehabilitation Research Group

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