NCT05738499

The Effectiveness and Mechanism of Character Strengths-based STEP Programme on Rehabilitation of Stroke Patients

The Effectiveness and Mechanism of Character Strengths-based Structured Treatment and Education Programme on Rehabilitation of Stroke Patients

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 172 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Peking University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

There is an urgent need for educational and psychological adjustment to stimulate the post-stroke patients' motivation to actively carry out rehabilitation. Studies have shown that interventions based on character strengths are widely used in chronic disease patients abroad, and have achieved the effect of improving the physical and mental health. However, research on individualized character strengths in stroke patient intervention is limited, and more clinical evidence is needed. This study is based on personality theory and the application of character strengths-based STEP programme (CSSTEP) in stroke patients. The investigators hypothesized that the CSSTEP programme could help stroke patients to improve mental state, cognitive function, and better gait performance, suffer from less post-stroke depression, enhance their post-stroke self-confidence.

Detailed description

Post-stroke patients are often accompanied by different degrees of cognitive and language impairments. About 45% of the patients have persistent limb dysfunction, which leads to strong psychological stress reactions in patients, and negative emotions such as anxiety and depression are common. There is an urgent need for educational and psychological adjustment to stimulate the patient's motivation to actively carry out rehabilitation, so as to reduce negative emotions, enhance the patient's intrinsic motivation for rehabilitation, and reduce the patient's disability. Studies have shown that interventions based on character strengths are widely used in chronic disease patients abroad, and have achieved the effect of improving the physical and mental health of patients. However, research on individualized character strengths in stroke patient intervention is limited, and more clinical evidence is needed. This study is based on personality theory and the application of character strengths-based STEP programme (CSSTEP) in stroke patients. The investigators hypothesized that the CSSTEP programme could help stroke patients to improve mental state, cognitive function, and better gait performance, suffer from less post-stroke depression, enhance their post-stroke self-confidence. In addition, the investigators will use the application of CSSTEP in stroke care to provide a theoretical basis for a new personality direction for clinical psychological intervention, and provide new ideas and ideas for improving the stroke rehabilitation system and establishing a new personalized post-stroke intervention.

Conditions

• Stroke
• Intervention
• Rehabilitation
• Depression

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Character strengths-based structured treatment and education programme (CSSTEP)	This CSSTEP intervention included both psychological and educational contents, and the intervention type was psycho-educational intervention. The implementation process lasted for three weeks. CSSTEP mainly includes two main components. The first part is character strengths-based intervention. The second part is educational intervention, which is structured treatment and education programme for stroke patients. The two components were combined and optimized on the basis of theoritical and empirical evidences, and then this kind of complex intervention suitable for Chinese clinical stroke patients was obtained.
OTHER	Structured treatment and education programme (STEP)	The STEP programme is aimed at the treatment needs of stroke patients, considering the education level and cultural background of patients, screening important health education content, and planning and grading of patients' education. The intervention consisted of three educational sessions, focusing on patients' daily life, post-stroke rehabilitation and secondary prevention.

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-04-30
• Primary completion: 2023-12-30
• Completion: 2023-12-30
• First posted: 2023-02-22
• Last updated: 2023-11-18

Locations

1 site across 1 country: China