NCT01693341

A Caregiver-mediated Intervention Improves the Functional Ability of Home-living Chronic Stroke Patients

Caregiver-mediated Intervention in Home-living Chronic Stroke Patients

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 50 (actual)
• Sponsor: Asia University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 85 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

To examine the feasibility of improving stroke patients' physical functional recovery and social participation through improving caregiver's care capability.

Detailed description

In the hospital, most rehabilitation units are like sheltered workshops and the therapists work with stroke patients in well-designed, but non-home-like, environment to improve the stroke patient's functional ability. After returning home, stroke patients face new challenges and also need to assume more responsibility for daily activities. Without continuing rehabilitation training or proper support, the patients can easily fall into a sedentary lifestyle and lead to declines in functional ability.However, providing home-based exercise by therapists directly would increase the health care cost and may not be practical for chronic stroke patients. Hence, the objective of the present study was to determine whether a caregiver-mediated, home-based intervention program is effective for improving stroke patients' functional ability and social participation.

Conditions

• Stroke

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Care-giver mediated training	A physical therapist visited each subject and the caregiver (of the intervention group) once weekly for about 90 min/session to teach patient-skills and caregiver-skills. The therapist first reviewed the condition of each patient and planned patient-specific training programs, continuously performed 12 weeks.

Timeline

• Start date: 2011-10-01
• Primary completion: 2013-01-01
• Completion: 2013-01-01
• First posted: 2012-09-26
• Last updated: 2024-07-31

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Taiwan