Development and evaluation of Goal setting and Action Planning (G-AP) training to support person-centred rehabilitation practice.

Background: Stroke survivor's goals reflect their individual priorities and hopes for the future. Person-centred goal setting is recommended in rehabilitation clinical guidelines, but evidence-based training to support its implementation in practice is limited. We aimed to develop, describe and evaluate a new Goal setting and Action Planning (G-AP) rehabilitation training resource to support person-centred goal setting practice in community neuro-rehabilitation settings. Methods: A clinical-academic team, advisory group and web-design company were convened to co-develop the G-AP training resource. G-AP training was then delivered to multi-disciplinary staff ( Results: A fully online G-AP training resource comprising a training website and two interactive webinars was developed. Following training, 41/48 (85%) staff completed the online questionnaire and 8/48 (17%) participated in the focus group. Nearly all staff rated the training website as excellent ( Conclusions: The new G-AP training resource was positively evaluated and supported early G-AP implementation efforts. This study advances our understanding of training evaluation by highlighting the training-context interaction the temporal nature of training effects. A follow up study evaluating longer term G-AP implementation is underway.