Strategy Training and Pets to Promote Stroke Survivor's Cognitive Performance and Community Participation
Overview
- Phase
- N/A
- Intervention
- Not specified
- Conditions
- Stroke
- Sponsor
- University of Haifa
- Enrollment
- 50
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Mean engagement score as measured by the Pittsburgh Rehabilitation Participation Scale
- Status
- Not Yet Recruiting
- Last Updated
- last year
Overview
Brief Summary
The study will administer an intervention called strategy training to adult stroke survivors living in the community who do and do not have pets, and will examine the role of a pet in promoting cognitive performance and community participation outcomes.
Investigators
Naor Demeter
Principal Investigator, Faculty Associate
University of Haifa
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- •Primary diagnosis of acute stroke
- •At least 3 months after the stroke onset
- •Living in a community residence with a pet
- •Cognitive impairment as indicated by an Executive Interview score of 3 or higher
- •Participation restrictions as indicated by an Activity Card Sort (\<80% of pre-stroke activities)
- •Willing to participate in a 6-week program with 2 intervention sessions per week at home
Exclusion Criteria
- •Dementia as indicated by Montreal Cognitive Assessment score of 18 or lower
- •Severe aphasia as indicated by the Boston Diagnostic Aphasia Examination Severity Score of 0 or 1
- •Self-report of a central nervous system disorder other than stroke
- •Recent drug or alcohol addiction/abuse within 3 months prior to the Mini-Neuropsychiatric Interview
- •Severe mental illness as indicated by the PRIME-MD
- •Prior exposure to strategy training
- •Currently participate in rehabilitation therapy programs
- •Stroke survivors without pets
- •Inclusion Criteria:
- •Primary diagnosis of acute stroke
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Mean engagement score as measured by the Pittsburgh Rehabilitation Participation Scale
Time Frame: Baseline to 6 weeks
The scale is a valid and reliable criterion referenced measure that assesses engagement in rehabilitation therapy sessions. Each session is scored by the occupational therapist, 1 (no participation, refusal) to 6 (excellent participation). Scores are averaged across the 10-15 intervention sessions to generate the mean engagement score.
Secondary Outcomes
- Change in attention as measured by the Color Trail Test 1(Baseline to 3 months)
- Change in executive function as measured by the Color Trail Test 2(Baseline to 3 months)
- Change in community participation as measure by Community Participation Indicators score(Baseline to 3 months)