INTRODUCTION
stroke, depression, acute stroke, depressive symptoms
STROKE, ACUTE STROKE
Expenditure on health care and mental health care is growing and posing serious challenges for governments around the world (Patel et al., Psychological interventions to build mental wellbeing can have a vital role in reducing the pressure and burden of illness (Slade, To date, three RCTs have reported the effectiveness of ACT for stroke patients, and both showed benefits. Firstly, Majumdar and Morris (Secondly, Niu et al. (Thirdly, Wang et al. (These three RCTs suggest that ACT may have efficacy in reducing depression following stroke. This study aims to test the effectiveness of ACT in a large hospital by implementing G‐ACT for acute stroke patients with depression and to evaluate changes in the quality of life, and sleep quality. To our knowledge, this is the first large trial in an acute stroke sample testing G‐ACT as the treatment of depressive symptoms following stroke.