The Impact of Social Phone Calls on Adults Who Have Had a Stroke

The University of Texas System (UT)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Stroke

Treatments: Behavioral: Social Phone Calls

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05793255

HSC-SN-22-1084

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to see the impact of social visits, through weekly phone calls, on quality of life and health outcomes of depression, anxiety, loneliness, and self-rated health for adults who have experienced an ischemic or hemorrhagic stroke and to determine the benefit of these conversations on the student volunteer's perspective of adults who have survived a stroke

Enrollment: 14 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• have a UCLA short form score of 4 or higher
• can read, write, and speak English
• have had an ischemic or hemorrhagic stroke is the past year
• have a telephone and are available for weekly phone calls
• provide informed consent agreeing to be contacted by the volunteers

Exclusion criteria

• reside outside of the home
• have Electronic Health Record documentation of Aphasia
• Montreal Cognitive Assessment score of <9

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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14 participants in 1 patient group

Treatment group

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Social Phone Calls