Stroke patients' and non-professional coaches' experiences with home-based constraint-induced movement therapy: a qualitative study.

"Declaration of conflicting interests: The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship and/or publication of this article."

"Funding: The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship and/or publication of this article: The study was funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Grant No. BMBF-01-GX-1003)."

"This qualitative interview study about the experiences of stroke patients and non-professional coaches with homeCIMT was embedded within the cluster randomized controlled HOMECIMT trial, which had been designed to compare home-CIMT with conventional physical or occupational therapy in ambulatory care for patients with upper limb dysfunction following stroke. Details of the HOMECIMT trial have been published elsewhere., The study protocol has been approved by the Ethics Committee of the Medical Association of Hamburg (approval no. PV 3737) and is registered at www.clinicaltrials.gov (NCT01343602). The qualitative study was carried out from October 2012 to October 2013."