Efficacy of Recreational-therapeutic Use of Video Games on the Emotional State of Stroke Patients

San Carlos Clinical Hospital

Status: Active, not recruiting

Conditions: Stroke, Acute; Virtual Reality

Treatments: Other: Virtual reality

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05143385

HospitalSanCarlos

Details and patient eligibility

About

According to the latest published literature reviews, stroke patients have a prevalence of 19.5% of minor depression and 21.7% of major depression. Furthermore, the loss of autonomy is the most strongly correlated variable in these emotional disorders. In addition, emotional disturbances - in particular anxiety, sadness, crying, and anhedonia - are interpreted as natural reactions to the loss of physical capacity. Along these lines, it has been shown that the use of Virtual Reality (VR) as a co-adjuvant therapy of neuro-rehabilitation in stroke patients with emotional disorders decreases the incidence of these disorders.

Full description

. Primary objective

• To evaluate the impact on mood, anxiety and depression in patients admitted to neurorehabilitation units after the use of non-immersive virtual reality with the Nintento Switch device in their rehabilitation treatment.

Secondary objectives

• To describe the emotional state of patients before the use of non-immersive virtual therapy in their rehabilitation.
• To describe the emotional state of patients after the use of virtual reality in their rehabilitation.
• To compare the emotional state of patients before and after the implementation of virtual therapy in their rehabilitation.
• To describe the emotional state of patients who have not used non-immersive virtual reality in their rehabilitation by choice.
• To evaluate the efficacy of the involvement of the use of virtual reality therapy in patients with altered emotional state.

Enrollment: 94 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• To be of legal age
• Fluent in oral and written Spanish.
• Patients with cognitive functions of expression and comprehension.

Exclusion criteria

• Patients who are not undergoing neurorehabilitation treatment.
• Patients who have not yet started rehabilitation treatment.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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94 participants in 2 patient groups

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

The variables to be filled in upon admission are: age, sex, reason for admission and main caregiver. The variables that will be collected on admission and discharge are: Mississippi Aphasia Screening test, Canadian scale, Duke-UNK-11 subjective support scale, UCLA loneliness scale, oropharyngeal dysphagia screening test, Pfreiffer scale, State assessment mood, Hamilton Rating for Depression and Hospital Anxiety Depression Scale and HLS-EU Q16., Will be performed on all patients who are part of the trial. Those patients where conventional rehabilitative treatment is performed will be: * Physiotherapy sessions * Speech therapy sessions * Neuropsychology sessions * Occupational therapy sessions

Intervention Group

Experimental group

Description:

The variables are to be filled in upon admission are: age, sex, reason for admission and main caregiver. The variables that will be collected on admission and discharge are: MAST, Canadian scale, Duke-UNK-11 subjective support scale, UCLA loneliness scale, oropharyngeal dysphagia screening test, Pfeiffer scale, State assessment mood, Hamilton Rating for Depression and Hospital Anxiety Depression Scale and HLS-EU Q16.The beginning of the intervention will be once you have completed 15 calendar days from your admission.The intervention will be carried out once a week with a duration of 20 min with one of the games chosen by the patient together with the physiotherapist.The completion of the intervention will be until the patient is discharged from hospital, with a minimum of four sessions carried out in order to participate in the study.A registration table will be executed where the number of sessions of each patient and the type of session are quantified like a control group.

Treatment:

Other: Virtual reality