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Estimating the cost of post-stroke cognitive impairment in the community

This Studentship is part of the HRB-ICE funded StrokeCog study which is led by the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) and the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI). The study aims to model and modify the consequences of stroke-related cognitive impairment. This Studentship will be part of the 3rd Work Package of the StrokeCog study which aims to cost cognitive impairment after stroke. For this Studentship, the focus will be on estimating such costs for community-dwelling stroke survivors.
To estimates these costs, the Student will first analyse data from the ASPIRE-S study on the extent to which stroke survivors living at home use healthcare services. This will be supplemented by data which the Student will help to collect in a survey of family carers of stroke survivors. Once utilisation of healthcare services has been estimated, the Student will then estimate the costs of care. To do this, the Student will multiply appropriate unit costs by mean estimates of use of each healthcare service. This Studentship will provide practical experience of many aspects of the research process, including data collection, analysis and report writing. For example, the Student will learn about the challenges of data collection; how to import a dataset into STATA; STATA commands to run and save analyses; how to interpret STATA outputs; save these outputs as tables in Microsoft Excel and how to include these tables in written reports of the analysis. All of these skills will be beneficial for a future academic career.