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A Caregiver-Assisted Rehabilitation With Strategy Training (CAR-ST) for Stroke Patients

NCT06754566 · Status: RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 261

Last updated 2025-02-17

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Summary

The goal of this randomized controlled trial is to examine if involving the caregivers in the strategy training (i.e. caregiver-assisted rehabilitation with strategy training, CAR-ST) works to improve activity functions in community-dwelling adults after stroke. The main questions it aims to answer are:

Does CAR-ST and strategy training alone lead to greater improvements in activity performance among stroke survivors relative to the control intervention with education? Does CAR-ST outperform strategy training alone in the efficacy of activity outcomes? Do the activity effects of CAR-ST transfer to the impairment and participation domains of outcomes?

Researchers will compare the efficacy of the CAR-ST intervention against strategy training alone or control intervention (education program) to see if caregivers contribute to post-stroke functional improvements.

Participants will:

* receive CAR-ST, strategy training only, or an education program 1 to 2 sessions per week until finishing 10 sessions.
* be assessed clinical outcomes at 4 times: pre-intervention, post-intervention, 3-month, and 6-month follow-up.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Caregiver-Assisted Rehabilitation with Strategy Training

CAR-ST is a home-based rehabilitation that guides both stroke survivors and their caregivers to implement strategy training for addressing daily activity limitations after stroke. The caregiver, as an active partner, not only supervises the participant but also co-participates in the practice. Caregivers are instructed on when and how to provide assistance during task practice, using physical, verbal, or visual guidance. As the participant's performance improves, the caregiver is empowered to motivate them to exert greater efforts, encouraging higher repetitions, longer durations of the same task, and an increased level of difficulty.

BEHAVIORAL

Strategy Training

Compared to CAR-ST, ST is a home-based rehabilitation that guides stroke survivors only to implement strategy training for addressing daily activity limitations after stroke.

BEHAVIORAL

Education

Stroke-related information and knowledge that includes stroke subtypes and their etiology, risk factors of primary and secondary stroke, healthy lifestyles, common sequala, and adaptive skills for impaired functions are provided.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Taipei Medical University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Feng-Heng Chang, ScD · Graduate Institute of Injury Prevention and Control, Taipei Medical University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2025-01-17
Primary Completion
2028-06-30
Completion
2028-12-31

Countries

  • Taiwan

Study Locations

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Diseases

Read the full study record

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