Mapping the commonalities of rehabilitation: using GUIDE-rehab to open the black box of programmes across diverse health conditions
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Qualitative study reveals incomplete coverage of disability domains across specialized rehabilitation programmes in Europe, suggesting a need for standardized intervention reporting.
Key Points
- Identify commonalities among rehabilitation programmes across multiple health conditions and research partners within the PREPARE project.
- Qualitative study evaluating 7 rehabilitation programmes across Europe selected for their large clinical databases.
- Applied the Guideline for Interventions Description in Rehabilitation (GUIDE-Rehab) to detail targets, components, and ingredients, mapping them to International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health (ICF) domains.
- Rehabilitation programmes covered all ICF domains collectively but showed incomplete coverage individually, with body functions and structures prioritized over participation and contextual factors.
- Identical intervention components (such as exercise and orthoses) served distinct clinical objectives depending on the theoretical framework, while pharmacological and surgical elements were integrated into rehabilitation.
Cite This Study
Négrini et al. (2026) studied this question.