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Strategy Training and Pets to Promote Stroke Survivor's Cognitive Performance and Community Participation

No phase Interventional Stroke

For patients and families

In plain language

An automatic summary of structured registry data. It is an orientation aid, not a substitute for the official protocol or a physician assessment.

What is being studied
The protocol lists: Strategy Training.
Who it may be relevant to
Registry conditions: Stroke. Basic parameters: from 18 years · All.
What needs checking
Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
Where it takes place
United States
Next step
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Overview

The study will administer an intervention called strategy training to adult stroke survivors living in the community who do and do not have pets, and will examine the role of a pet in promoting cognitive performance and community participation outcomes.

Interventions

  • Behavioral Strategy Training
    Strategy training is comprised of participant-selected activity based goals, self evaluation, global problem solving strategies, and therapist-delivered guided training. The strategy training therapist will guide participants using prompting questions, as well as work sheets that facilitate learning and aid the participants in implementing the process.

Primary outcome measures

  • Mean engagement score as measured by the Pittsburgh Rehabilitation Participation Scale [Time frame: Baseline to 6 weeks]
Secondary outcome measures (3)
  • Change in attention as measured by the Color Trail Test 1 [Time frame: Baseline to 3 months]
  • Change in executive function as measured by the Color Trail Test 2 [Time frame: Baseline to 3 months]
  • Change in community participation as measure by Community Participation Indicators score [Time frame: Baseline to 3 months]

Eligibility criteria

Stroke survivors with pets

Inclusion criteria

  • Primary diagnosis of acute stroke
  • At least 3 months after the stroke onset
  • Living in a community residence with a pet
  • Cognitive impairment as indicated by an Executive Interview score of 3 or higher
  • Participation restrictions as indicated by an Activity Card Sort (<80% of pre-stroke activities)
  • Willing to participate in a 6-week program with 2 intervention sessions per week at home

Exclusion criteria

  • Dementia as indicated by Montreal Cognitive Assessment score of 18 or lower
  • Severe aphasia as indicated by the Boston Diagnostic Aphasia Examination Severity Score of 0 or 1
  • Self-report of a central nervous system disorder other than stroke
  • Recent drug or alcohol addiction/abuse within 3 months prior to the Mini-Neuropsychiatric Interview
  • Severe mental illness as indicated by the PRIME-MD
  • Prior exposure to strategy training
  • Currently participate in rehabilitation therapy programs

Stroke survivors without pets

Inclusion criteria

  • Primary diagnosis of acute stroke
  • At least 3 months after the stroke onset
  • Living in a community residence
  • Cognitive impairment as indicated by an Executive Interview score of 3 or higher
  • Participation restrictions as indicated by an Activity Card Sort (<80% of pre-stroke activities)
  • Willing to participate in a 6-week program with 2 intervention sessions per week at home

Exclusion criteria

  • Dementia as indicated by Montreal Cognitive Assessment score of 18 or lower
  • Severe aphasia as indicated by the Boston Diagnostic Aphasia Examination Severity Score of 0 or 1
  • Self-report of a central nervous system disorder other than stroke
  • Recent drug or alcohol addiction/abuse within 3 months prior to the Mini-Neuropsychiatric Interview
  • Severe mental illness as indicated by the PRIME-MD
  • Prior exposure to strategy training
  • Currently participate in rehabilitation therapy programs

Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.

Healthy volunteers: No

Study design

Allocation
Non-randomized
Model
Parallel assignment
Masking
Open label
Primary purpose
Treatment

Study locations

United States · 1 center
  • University of Pittsburgh — Pittsburgh

Identifiers

NCT: NCT05098730 · STUDY21080031

Primary sources (government registries)

View this study on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗