Nurse-Led Bedside Trunk Control Care Program

Chung Shan Medical University

Status: Not yet enrolling

Conditions: Stroke

Treatments: Other: Trunk Control Care Program

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT07018102

CS1-23077

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study aimed to apply care for stroke survivors by establishing trustable professional activities competency indicators and a trunk control care module for rehabilitation ward nurses during our second year.

Full description

Thus, the purposes of this study were: (1) to evaluate the effect of a stepwise nurse-led bedside trunk control care module intervention on improving trunk control, respiratory function, and quality of life in patients with stroke and (2) to modify and confirm the milestones and trustable professional activities of competence in trunk impairment care for patients with stroke to provide evidence-based nursing education and cultivate new nurses' competence in trunk injury care in the future.

Enrollment: 130 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20 to 80 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• (a) Patients hospitalized for stroke in rehabilitation or neurology wards, currently in stable condition; (b) Trunk Impairment Scale score below 21; (c) aged 20 or above; (d) patients willing to participate.

Exclusion criteria

• Patients with Trunk Impairment Scale score above 21, as this indicates that they can perform daily activities independently

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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130 participants in 2 patient groups

Trunk Control Care Program

Experimental group

Description:

A step-wise nurse-led bedside trunk control care module intervention

Treatment:

Other: Trunk Control Care Program

standard care

No Intervention group

Description:

The control group received routine care including health education on turning over, positioning, and wheelchair use.