NCT02435043

A Trial of Nature-based Post-stroke Fatigue Rehabilitation (NASTRU)

A Randomized Controlled Trial of Nature-based Post-stroke Fatigue Rehabilitation (NASTRU)

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 101 (actual)
• Sponsor: Region Skane · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 55 Years – 80 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The aim of NASTRU was to examine whether ten weeks of nature-based rehabilitation, as add-on to standard management, could influence post-stroke fatigue (primary outcome), depression, work ability or functional outcome (secondary outcomes), compared to controls.

Detailed description

Patients randomized to the intervention undergo a rehabilitation program in groups up to 8 patients in an especially designed garden at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Alnarp. The intervention is grounded in environmental psychology and occupational therapy, supported by a multimodal rehabilitation team that utilizes the garden/nature for sensory stimulation, body awareness, meaningful occupations and nature experiences. The enrollment of 101 patients (51 intervention; 50 control) was completed on August 2014. Follow-up is on-going, with assessments by examiner blinded to treatment group, at end of intervention period, 8 months, and 14 months after randomization. A parallel study with qualitative in-depth interviews in a subset of patients, who were randomized to the intervention group, as well as the staff, is also ongoing.

Conditions

• Stroke

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Nature based rehabilitation	ten weeks of nature-based rehabilitation, as add-on to standard management. A rehabilitation program in groups up to 8 patients in an especially designed garden at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Alnarp. The intervention was grounded in environmental psychology and occupational therapy, supported by a multimodal rehabilitation team that utilized the garden/nature for sensory stimulation, body awareness, meaningful occupations and nature experiences.
OTHER	standard management after stroke	standard management after stroke is individualised.

Timeline

• Start date: 2012-08-01
• Primary completion: 2015-05-01
• Completion: 2020-01-01
• First posted: 2015-05-06
• Last updated: 2020-02-13

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Sweden