'Physical well-being is our top priority': Healthcare professionals' challenges in supporting psychosocial well-being in stroke services.

Background: Following stroke, a sense of well-being is critical for quality of life. However, people living with stroke, and health professionals, suggest that well-being is not sufficiently addressed within stroke services, contributing to persistent unmet needs. Knowing that systems and structures shape clinical practice, this study sought to understand how health professionals address well-being, and to examine how the practice context influences care practice.

Psychosocial well-being after stroke in Aotearoa New Zealand: a qualitative metasynthesis.

Purpose: Psychosocial well-being is key to living well after stroke, but often significantly affected by stroke. Existing understandings consider well-being comes from positive mood, social relationships, self-identity and engagement in meaningful activities. However, these understandings are socioculturally located and not necessarily universally applicable.

The Physical Activity and Disability Survey (PADS): reliability, validity and acceptability in people with multiple sclerosis.

Objective: To explore the test-retest reliability and construct validity of the standardized Physical Activity and Disability Survey (PADS) and its acceptability to people with multiple sclerosis.

Design: Participants completed the PADS twice with seven days between repeated measures, while also wearing an Actical accelerometer. Semi-structured interview questions were used to explore the acceptability of the PADS.