The Effect of Activity Feedback Enabled by Smart Watches During In-patient Stroke Rehabilitation

Summary

The amount of activity completed by individuals within rehabilitation programs, even when units are well staffed, is often far below that required for optimal stroke rehabilitation, and is not individually adapted on a day-to-day basis. Daily feedback on their activity levels may motivate stroke survivors to engage in greater skills practice and thus outcome after stroke. To date only a few trials suggests that augmented feedback may be effective. There is a need for a large pragmatic trial to explore the impact of augmented activity feedback on top of their standard care. The purpose of this study is to determine the effect of augmented activity feedback by smart watches to support in-patient stroke rehabilitation.

Conditions

• Stroke

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Feedback against tailored target

Participants will wear a smart watch every weekday for nine hours during in-patient rehabilitation to monitor activity levels while receiving their usual care. In the active group, the watch will summate activity movement in two hour epochs and the target for the day for that epoch is the activity in the same epoch 24 hours earlier, plus 5%. During an epoch the patient is shown progress towards the target at at the end of an epoch, they will see their final process towards target for that epoch.

BEHAVIORAL

No feedback

Participants will wear a smart watch every weekday for nine hours during in-patient rehabilitation to monitor activity levels while receiving their usual care. However the watch face will simply show which epoch a person is in. The watch will collect the activity in exactly the same way over the day.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Oxford Brookes University

  collaborator OTHER

• Oxford International Rehabilitation Foundation and Innovation

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• University of Warwick

  collaborator OTHER

• The Second Affiliated Hospital of Anhui University of Traditional Chinese Medicine

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Derick T Wade, MD · Oxford Brookes University

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

DOUBLE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Max Age

75 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2015-09-30

Primary Completion

2018-01-31

Completion

2018-08-31

Countries

• China

Study Locations