The Impact of Chewing Food on Stroke Patients

Summary

The goal of this clinical trial is to explore the effect of Chewing Food on quality of life and nutritional status in ischemic stroke patients. Patients will be randomly divided into an interventional group and a control group, all receiving routine rehabilitation treatment and enteral nutrition feeding. On this basis, the interventional group will receive Chewing Food training before each feeding for 10 min. Researchers will compare changes in quality of life, and nutritional status of two groups of patients before and after the study to see if Chewing Food can improve the quality of life and nutritional status in ischemic stroke patients.

Conditions

• Stroke

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Chewing Real Food

Daily foods like candies and dumplings will be cut into small pieces. Patients will chew them before each rehabilitation training and then spit them out, with each training session lasting ten minutes.

BEHAVIORAL

routine rehabilitation therapy

Including： Basic treatment, including corresponding control of risk factors and education on healthy lifestyles. Swallowing training, including lemon ice stimulation, mendelson maneuver, empty swallowing training, and pronunciation training.

BEHAVIORAL

Oral tube feeding

Before each feeding, inside and outside of the tube was cleaned with water. During feeding, the patient should maintain a semi-reclining or sitting position with mouth opened, and the tube was inserted slowly and smoothly into the upper part of the esophagus by medical staffs while the appropriate depth of intubation was checked with the calibration markings on the tube wall. The distance from the incisors to the head part of the tube should be between 22-25 cm. However, the specific depth should be evaluated based on patients' feedback and adjusted accordingly. After insertion, the tail part of the tube should be put into a container full of water and the absence of continuous bubbles indicated a successful intubation. Then, the feeding was to be conducted three times per day with 50 ml per minute and 400-600ml for each feeding.

BEHAVIORAL

Chewing Lotus Root Powder Food

Lotus Root Powder Food will be cut into small pieces. Patients will chew them before each rehabilitation training and then spit them out, with each training session lasting ten minutes.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Zeng Xi

  lead OTHER_GOV

Principal Investigators

• Hongji Zeng, PhD · ZZU First Hospital

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

SINGLE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2024-11-15

Primary Completion

2025-10-16

Completion

2025-10-31

Countries

• China

Study Locations