Serious Game Therapy in Neglect Patients

Hopitaux de Saint-Maurice

Status: Completed

Conditions: Stroke; Unilateral Spatial Neglect

Treatments: Behavioral: serious game rehabilitation

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05805748

NSU-SG 5M

Details and patient eligibility

About

The growing field of new technologies offers new perspectives for neurorehabilitation. Serious games are a promising solution in the rehabilitation of cognitive impairments, and they may be useful in the rehabilitation of unilateral spatial neglect. Investigators developed a rehabilitation program for visual exploration training with a serious game and investigated its efficiency. Twelve patients with unilateral spatial neglect after a right hemispheric stroke were recruited. Six patients assigned to a group received both serious game training and conventional rehabilitation, and after only conventional rehabilitation; and six patients assigned to another group received first conventional rehabilitation and then serious game training and conventional rehabilitation. The investigators compared the two groups after rehabilitation.

Enrollment: 12 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 80 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Unilateral spatial neglect syndrome
• Right cerebral lesion

Exclusion criteria

• Epilepsia
• General mental deterioration
• Psychiatric disorder
• No prior history of neurological disease

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Crossover Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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12 participants in 2 patient groups

Group 1

Active Comparator group

Description:

Each patient received 2 rehabilitations : a serious game training and a conventional rehabilitation first (during 3 weeks) and then conventional rehabilitation alone (during 3 weeks)

Treatment:

Behavioral: serious game rehabilitation

Group 2

Active Comparator group

Description:

Each patient received 2 rehabilitations for 3 weeks: a conventional rehabilitation first (during 3 weeks) and then both serious game training and a conventional rehabilitation (during 3 weeks)

Treatment:

Behavioral: serious game rehabilitation