NCT04983004

Effectiveness of Tele-rehabilitation Apply to Stroke Inpatient

Effectiveness of Telerehabilitation Applied to Post-stroke Hospitalized Patients -A Randomized Controlled Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 24 (actual)
• Sponsor: Taipei Medical University Shuang Ho Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 20 Years – 85 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Our study is aimed to explore the differences in effects on the motor function and general condition after telerehabilitation for inpatients with stroke.

Detailed description

Background: Most patients after stroke suffer from poor motor recovery and difficulty in performing activities of daily living. Early intervention has a better prognosis for them. However, patients may miss the regular rehabilitation programs due to Covid-19. Tele-rehabilitation could be a substitution for regular rehabilitation in epidemic situation, by which patients after stroke could have a functional improvement in upper limb motions, ADLs, and complex activities. Furthermore, there is no evidence yet of the effectiveness of telerehabilitation applied to inpatients after stroke. Purposes: This study is aimed to know if telerehabilitation could improve the motor function and general condition in inpatients after stroke and to explore the intervention methods for telerehabilitation. Methods: Inpatients after stroke would be recruited from a hospital of a medical university in Northern Taiwan. They will be divided into the telerehabilitation group (n = 12) and the bedside rehabilitation group (n = 12). Each patient will go on treatment in 10 sections, and each section is 15 or to 30 minutes. A single-blinded evaluator will do the pre-and post-evaluation during the treatment. The evaluations include the Postural Assessment Scale for Stroke Patients (PASS), Functional ambulation category (FAC), Modified Barthel index (MBI), Patient health questionnaire-9 (PHQ9), and Borg Rating of Perceived Exertion (RPE). In the end, a satisfaction questionnaire will be given. Data analysis: Nonparametric tests will be used in the comparison of the pre-and post-evaluation data intergroup. The analysis will be carried out using SPSS Statistic (v20.0) and α \< .05. Key words: tele-rehabilitation, stroke, inpatients

Conditions

• Stroke

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	tele-rehabilitation	According to the pre-arranged case service schedule, the researcher is asked to push the computer and cart to the case ward for installation, and use the communication software to interact with each other in real time. The intervention method directly plays the recorded video to demonstrate the action according to the action needs of the case. The therapist can observe the video demonstration and the actual action execution of the case at the same time from the screen.
BEHAVIORAL	bedside rehabilitation	The bedside therapist and the case work together to set an activity schedule. The case is asked to establish and record daily routine activities, provide basic exercise and activity schedules to avoid degradation and reduce the lack of active participation in activities. The protection is to wear personal protective equipment, including protective clothing, gloves, masks, and face shields, and wash hands and disinfect before and after treatment.

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-08-20
• Primary completion: 2022-06-01
• Completion: 2022-07-01
• First posted: 2021-07-29
• Last updated: 2022-07-29

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Taiwan