Correlates of participation six months after stroke in an Italian population: results from the RIPS (Post-Stroke Intensive Rehabilitation) Study.

"Conflicts of interest.—The authors certify that there is no conflict of interest with any financial organization regarding the material discussed in the manuscript."

"Funding.— The study was funded by the Italian Ministry of Health under the “ Ricerca Corrente RC2020-RC2022 program ” and the 5×Mille funds AF2018 : “Data Science in Rehabilitation Medicine” AF2019 : “Study and development of biomedical data science and machine learning methods to support the appropriateness and the decision-making process in rehabilitation medicine.”"

"The data used in this study come from the admission and the follow-up assessments of the RIPS (Post-Stroke Intensive Rehabilitation) Study, a multicentric prospective study on predictors of functional outcomes in an Italian cohort of patients addressing post-acute intensive rehabilitation. The recruitment took place in four intensive rehabilitation units (IRUs) of IRCCS Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi Onlus (Florence, La Spezia, Massa, and Fivizzano; Italy), from January 2020 to June 2021. The study protocol was a priori registered on ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT03968627) and was approved by the local ethics committees of each center (Florence: 14513; La Spezia: 294/2019; Massa and Fivizzano: 68013/2019). The reporting of this study followed the STROBE checklist for observational studies. The studies involving human participants were reviewed and approved by Ethics Committees (Florence: 14513; La Spezia: 294/2019; Massa and Fivizzano: 68013/2019). The patients/participants provided their written informed consent to participate in this study."