NCT04477252

Mobile App as a Guide to Exercises for Patients With Chronic Stroke

Mobile App as a Guide to Lumbopelvic Stability Exercises in Patients With Chronic Stroke: a Pilot Study of a Randomized Clinical Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 30 (actual)
• Sponsor: Clínica de Neurorehabilitación · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Introduction: Stroke continues to be one of the leading causes of disability in the Spanish adult population with the presentation of impairments such as alteration of mobility and a consequent reduction in quality of life. These sequelae, generally chronic, generates a significant expense and saturation of social and health services. With the growth in the number of cases, the development of new rehabilitation approaches and updating of the social context becomes pertinent, such as the incorporation of telerehabilitation to assist individuals with stroke. Objectives: To analyze adherence to physical rehabilitation by mobile App and to evaluate the effectiveness of lumbopelvic stability exercises performed at home with the App. Material and methods: Randomized controlled single blind pilot study (n = 30). Participants with Stroke (\<6 months) will be randomized between two groups (App for carrying out lumbopelvic stability exercises + usual treatment versus usual treatment). The study will last 3 months and App adherence, Quality Of Life, participation in Daily Life, functionality, sitting balance, standing balance and gait will be taken as variables. Expected results: It is thought that the use of an App can contribute to rehabilitation in its chronic phase, monitorization and fallow-up the clinical evolution of the patient. Even if chronicity leads us to think about the stabilization of the physical condition, It is thought that the best results will be found among the subjects who will use the App.

Detailed description

The recruitment of participants will be done in a personalized way through a verbal invitation from the responsible therapist. The therapists of the center will be informed about the inclusion criteria in this study in order to proceed with the personalized invitation. In the case that the participant meet the inclusion criteria and wishes to participate in the study, the professional evaluator is contacted to begin the process of submission in this study. The professional evaluator has the responsibility to explain to the participant what the study consists of The professional evaluator is responsible for giving the participant the study information sheet (approved by the ethics committee and the management of the center where the study will be conducted). The professional evaluator is responsible for collecting the signature of the informed consent to participate in this study (approved by the ethics committee and the management of the center where the study will be conducted). A numerical code (from 1 to 30) will be assigned to each patient according to the order of recruitment to keep their identity secret. The code attributed to each participant will appear in the individual data collection notebook The association between the participant's identity and the attributed code will be known by the professional evaluator The code attributed to each participant will be entered in the spreadsheet where the collected data and results of the assessment tests will be uploaded.

Conditions

• Telerehabilitation
• Stroke Sequelae
• Therapeutic Adherence and Compliance
• Mobile Phone Use
• Physical Disability
• Neurologic Disorder

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	App-core	Farmalarm App of the Inmovens group - Vall d´Hebrón Hospital will be used, adapted and updated by the main researcher. The App will have the "rehabilitation" option where the user can consult the description of the exercise and view a demonstration video so that it can be carried out correctly at home, independently or with help. The administrator therapist of the App has the permission to create users, contact them directly through chat or video-call and personalize the exercise program. The exercises that will be carried out in this study phase, are described in previous studies by the author Rosa Cabanas et al. All possible exercises will be included in the administration platform, and according to of each user, the prescription of some exercises or others will be made.
OTHER	Conventional physiotherapy	Conventional physiotherapy is considered neuromotor development therapy as the most frequently used therapy in the management of stroke patients and in the center where the study is performed.

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-07-01
• Primary completion: 2021-03-30
• Completion: 2021-06-30
• First posted: 2020-07-20
• Last updated: 2021-07-28

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Spain