The Impact of Social Phone Calls on Adults Who Have Had a Stroke
- Conditions
- Stroke
- Interventions
- Behavioral: Social Phone Calls
- Registration Number
- NCT05793255
- Brief Summary
The purpose of this study is to see the impact of social visits, through weekly phone calls, on quality of life and health outcomes of depression, anxiety, loneliness, and self-rated health for adults who have experienced an ischemic or hemorrhagic stroke and to determine the benefit of these conversations on the student volunteer's perspective of adults who have survived a stroke
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- COMPLETED
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 14
- have a UCLA short form score of 4 or higher
- can read, write, and speak English
- have had an ischemic or hemorrhagic stroke is the past year
- have a telephone and are available for weekly phone calls
- provide informed consent agreeing to be contacted by the volunteers
- reside outside of the home
- have Electronic Health Record documentation of Aphasia
- Montreal Cognitive Assessment score of <9
Study & Design
- Study Type
- INTERVENTIONAL
- Study Design
- SINGLE_GROUP
- Arm && Interventions
Group Intervention Description Treatment group Social Phone Calls -
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Feasibility as assessed by the number of participants who enrolled in the study post intervention (6 weeks from start of intervention) Feasibility as assessed by the number of participants who completed all 6 phone calls post intervention (6 weeks from start of intervention) Feasibility as assessed by the number of participants who completed all the assessments post intervention (6 weeks from start of intervention)
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Change in loneliness as assessed by the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Loneliness Scale Baseline, post intervention (6 weeks from start of intervention) This is a 20 item questionnaire, each one is scored form 1(never) to 4(always). Scores for questions 1,5,6,9,10,15,16,19 and 20 are reversed(i.e. 1=4,2=3,3=2,4=1)and the scores for each item is then summed together, higher number indicating more loneliness
Change in depression as assessed by the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D) Baseline, post intervention (6 weeks from start of intervention) This is a 20 item questionnaire, each item is scored from 0(rarely or none of the time)-3 (most or all of the time) with a possible range of scores from 0-60 a higher score indicating more depression
Change in anxiety as assessed by the Generalized Anxiety Disorder 7 Scale (GAD 7) Baseline, post intervention (6 weeks from start of intervention) This is a 7 item questionnaire, each is scored from 0(not at all) to 3(nearly every day) a higher number indicating more anxiety
Change in social support as assessed by the Duke Social Support Index (DSSI) Scale Baseline, post intervention (6 weeks from start of intervention) This is a 10 item questionnaire and each is scored from 1-3,with a maximum score of 30 and higher score indicating higher levels of support
Change in resilience as assessed by the brief resilience scale Baseline, post intervention (6 weeks from start of intervention) This is a 6 item questionnaire and each is measured from 1(strongly disagree)-5(strongly agree) for maximum score of 30 a higher score indicating greater resilience to stressful events
Change in pain as assessed by the Brief Pain Inventory Short Form Baseline, post intervention (6 weeks from start of intervention) This questionnaire has 2 subscales :
The first subscale is the pain severity subscale which consists of 4 questions and each are scored from 0(no pain)-10(severe pain), a higher number indicating more pain
The second subscale is the pain interference score and it contains 7 items and each is scored from 0(does not interfere)-10(completely interferes) a higher number indicating worse outcome.
Trial Locations
- Locations (1)
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
🇺🇸Houston, Texas, United States