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Effects of Strategy Training for Physical Activity (STPA) on the Post-stroke Executive Dysfunction

NCT06790173 · Status: ENROLLING_BY_INVITATION · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 120

Last updated 2025-04-11

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Summary

The goal of this randomized controlled trial is to examine if combining strategy training and physical activity (STPA) works to improve executive function in community-dwelling adults with post-stroke cognitive impairment. The main questions it aims to answer are:

* Does STPA and physical exercise alone lead to greater improvements in executive function among stroke survivors relative to the control intervention with education?
* Does STPA outperform physical exercise alone in the efficacy of executive functions?
* Do the effects of STPA on executive functions transfer to the global cognition, balance, and activity-participation outcomes?
* Do the effects of STPA persist for at least 6 months post-intervention?

Researchers will compare the efficacy of the STPA intervention against physical exercise alone or control intervention with education.

Participants will:

receive STPA, physical activity only, or an education program 2 to 3 sessions per week until finishing 12 sessions.

be assessed clinical outcomes at 5 times: pre-intervention, post-intervention, 3-month, 6-month, and 12-month follow-up.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Strategy training for physical activity

STPA is a home-based rehabilitation that guides stroke participants to implement strategy training for addressing barriers to physical activity engagements. Participants learn and practice meta-cognitive strategies (to set a goal, to make a plan, to do the plan, to check the performance of the plan) throughout the intervention period.

BEHAVIORAL

Physical activity

PA program consists of a warm-up for 5 minutes, an aerobic exercise program for 30-40 minutes, a multicomponent exercise program (resistance and balance training) for 10-20 minutes, and finally, a cooling down program for 5 minutes.

OTHER

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

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
80 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2025-02-03
Primary Completion
2029-06-01
Completion
2030-12-31

Countries

  • Taiwan

Study Locations

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Read the full study record

This page highlights key information. For complete eligibility criteria, study locations, investigator contacts, and the full protocol, visit the original record on ClinicalTrials.gov.

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