NCT02988206

Personalized Objects Can Improve the Diagnosis of EMCS From MCS

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 21 (actual)
• Sponsor: Hangzhou Normal University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 15 Years – 70 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

In this study，researchers will use personalized objects to assess patients' level of consciousness in chronic patients in minimally conscious state (MCS).

Detailed description

The Coma Recovery Scale-Revised (CRS-R) is an important tool for the assessment of behaviors in DOC.Clinical practice has shown that self-referential stimuli, such as the patient's own name and face, are more effective to elicit the patient's response than that of non-self-referential stimuli. The item "Functional Object Use" was assessed by using personalized objects (e.g., cigarette, paper) and non-personalized objects, which presented in a random order.The rest assessments were performed following the standard protocol of CRS-R. The differences between functional use of the two types of objects was analyzed by Chi-square test. Researchers expected to see some of the patients in MCS are re-diagnosed as EMCS with the using of personalized objects.

Conditions

• Patients in Minimally Conscious State

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Personalized Objects	personalized objects are based on the observation or the reports from family
BEHAVIORAL	non-personalized Objects	non-personalized objects are based on the suggestion in CRS-R,which are comb and cup

Timeline

• Start date: 2015-03-01
• Primary completion: 2016-08-01
• Completion: 2016-08-01
• First posted: 2016-12-09
• Last updated: 2016-12-14