Improving stroke recovery in Maori and Pacific people and their families

INTERVENTION: Randomised controlled trial (multi centre). Participants randomised to receive one of three interventions or a control. Intervention A ‐ Educational video lasting 80 minutes Intervention B ‐ goal setting exercise lasting 90 minutes Intervention C ‐ both the video and the goal setting exercise lasting 170 minutes CONDITION: Stroke PRIMARY OUTCOME: Short form 36 physical component SECONDARY OUTCOME: Barthell Index Carer strain Index Comorbidities (using Charlson Index) Discrimination (EDQ) Frenchay Activity Index Mental wellness (using Hua Oranga) Mortality INCLUSION CRITERIA: Stroke using World Health Organistaion definition 'rapidly developing symptoms and/or signs of focal, and at times global, loss of cerebral function, with symptoms lasting longer than 24 hours or leading to death with no apparent cause other than that of vascualr originSelf idenitfied ethnicity as Maori, Samoan, Tongan, Cook Island Maori, Niuean, Fijian.