A Multidisciplinary Telerehabilitation for Stroke Patients

Vetrea Terveys

Status: Completed

Conditions: Stroke Sequelae

Treatments: Behavioral: Conventional inpatient rehabilitation; Behavioral: Telerehabilitation

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04116190

Aimo2019

Details and patient eligibility

About

Objective: Evaluate the feasibility of a multidisciplinary telerehabilitation for chronic stroke patients.

Design: Chronic stroke patients eligible for multidisciplinary rehabilitation funded by the Social Insurance Institution were enrolled between September 2017 and March 2018 in a consecutive basis to receive a mixed program of inpatient rehabilitation and telerehabilitation in their homes or a traditional inpatient rehabilitation only.

Intervention: A rehabilitation course with a 3-day inpatient stay followed by an 8-week telerehabilitation period completed by 2-day evaluation stay in a rehab center. The control group received conventional multidisciplinary rehabilitation for two weeks in an inpatient setting.

Outcome and measures: Change in the Finnish version of Functional Status Questionnaire (FSQFin), the World Health Organization Quality of Life - Short version (WHOQOL-Bref), the Barthel Index, the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI21), and the Goal Attainment Scale (GAS) and a patient satisfaction questionnaire.

Enrollment: 45 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• chronic stroke (6 months or more) patient living in home
• eligible to receive rehabilitation funded by the Social Insurance Institution (meets the criteria of chronic disability and need for rehabilitation)
• for intervention group: capable to use a personal computer and telecommunication

Exclusion criteria

• no access or capability to use a personal computer
• significant problems in hearing, seeing or understanding information related to the intervention

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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45 participants in 2 patient groups

Telerehabilitation (TR)

Experimental group

Description:

Shortened inpatient rehabilitation mixed with home-based telerehabilitation.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Telerehabilitation

Conventional rehabilitation (CR)

Experimental group

Description:

Traditional inpatient rehabilitation

Treatment:

Behavioral: Conventional inpatient rehabilitation