PREPARE- Prehabilitation for Patients Awaiting Liver Transplantation: Feasibility and Acceptability Testing.

PREhabilitation for Patients Awaiting a Liver Transplantation: The Development and Feasibility Testing of a Remote Multicomponent pREhabilitation Intervention: PREPARE

This is a study developing a prehabilitation intervention and then testing the acceptability and feasibility of the intervention.

Start date Aug 2022 for Focus groups and Feb 2023 Co-design workshops and feasibility study date pending

This study is using focus groups and experience based co-design workshops to co-design a remote multicomponent prehabilitation intervention for patients awaiting liver transplantation.

Once the intervention is developed it will then be tested for acceptability and feasibility with the liver transplantation cohort in Belfast Northern Ireland.

Inclusion Criteria:

• on the transplant waiting list
• grade 3 below for encephalopathy

Exclusion Criteria:

• grade 4 above encephalopathy
• Known adverse reaction to exercise
• New stroke
• lacks capacity to consent