Effect of Intensive Cognitive Rehabilitation in Subacute Stroke Patient

Samsung Medical Center

Status: Completed

Conditions: Rehabilitation; Cognitive Function; Stroke

Treatments: Procedure: Cognitive rehabilitation

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03168360

2016-04-156

Details and patient eligibility

About

Early stroke rehabilitation is known to be an effective and essential therapy in gaining functional independence and preventing complications. However, there was no consensus of proper amount of cognitive rehabilitation in stroke patients. In this study, the investigators assess the effects of the intensive cognitive rehabilitation during subacute phase to improve cognitive function at 6 months after onset in patients with first-ever strokes.

Full description

Intensive cognitive rehabilitation group

• cognitive therapy for 1 hours on every working day for 4 weeks

Conventional cognitive rehabilitation group

• cognitive therapy for 30 minutes on every working day for 4 weeks

Enrollment: 150 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 19+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Acute first-ever stroke
• Korean Mini-Mental State Examination: 11~24 at 7 days after stroke onset

Exclusion criteria

• Transient ischemic stroke

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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150 participants in 2 patient groups

Intensive group

Experimental group

Description:

cognitive rehabilitation therapy for 1 hour by cognitive therapist on every working day for 4 weeks

Treatment:

Procedure: Cognitive rehabilitation

Conventional group

Active Comparator group

Description:

cognitive rehabilitation therapy for 30 minutes by cognitive therapist on every working day for 4 weeks

Treatment:

Procedure: Cognitive rehabilitation