Electronic Capturing of Activities During REhabilitation for Upper Limb After 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: Real-time electronic data input into REDCap.
- 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
- Australia
- Next step
- Save the trial, show it to the treating physician, and confirm current recruitment with the study center. Costs, documents and travel →
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Overview
This is a prospective cohort study to determine the feasibility of accurate, complete, and timely real-time electronic capturing of upper limb motor intervention sessions during usual care. In clinical trials accurate reporting of usual care for people with stroke is scarce, thus understanding the control group compared to the experimental group is poor. The unit of measure in this study is therapy sessions, where a clinician is providing usual care to a patient. The observed sessions will occur in two Austin Health settings: Acute at Austin Hospital; subacute, across Royal Talbot Rehabilitation Centre or the Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital. For each session, patient characteristics, dose and content of upper limb interventions will be electronically captured in REDCap. Additionally, the sessions will be video recorded to allow a second rater to assess feasibility. The secondary aim is to determine if there is an association between the dose and content of upper limb intervention sessions and the contextual factors of stroke patients. Two participant groups will be recruited: Stroke patients and Clinicians (Occupational Therapists and Allied Health Assistants).
Detailed description
This is a prospective observational cohort study to determine the feasibility of accurate, complete, and timely real-time electronic capturing of upper limb motor intervention sessions during usual care.
In clinical trials accurate reporting of usual care for people with stroke is scarce, thus understanding the control group compared to the experimental group is poor.
The unit of measure is the therapy sessions, where a clinician is providing usual care to a patient. The observed sessions will occur across two Austin Health settings. Setting A: Acute at Austin Hospital, and Setting B: Subacute at Royal Talbot Rehabilitation Centre or the Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital.
For each session, patient characteristics, the multiple dimensions of dose, and the content of usual care motor upper limb interventions will be electronically captured in REDCap. The observed sessions will be video recorded and a second rater will review the session for dose data accuracy. Secondary to determining feasibility, the dose and content data from observed sessions will be analysed to investigate the association of context factors such as setting and upper limb impairment severity.
As such, this study aims to answer the following research questions:
* Is it feasible for clinicians to electronically capture accurate, complete, and timely upper limb motor intervention session dose during usual care of stroke patients? * Is there an association between dose and content of upper limb intervention sessions and the contextual factors of stroke patients?
Interventions
- Other Real-time electronic data input into REDCap
During usual care sessions, clinicians will real-time capture information about the intervention session into REDCap. This information is related to the multi-dimensional dose articulation framework e.g., content of the session and difficulty of the task, session length, episode length, and number of repetitions. The usual care motor upper limb intervention the patient receives is determined by the clinician providing the care. The therapy may include but is not limited to strength training, ta
Primary outcome measures
- Feasibility of real-time electronic data input of usual care session dose [Time frame: Each feasibility session will take up to one hour.]
Eligibility criteria
Group 1: Stroke patients
Inclusion criteria
- Adults (≥18 years) with a new, first or consecutive stroke, confirmed on CT or MRI.
- Motor upper limb impairment defined by a Shoulder Abduction and Finger Extension (SAFE) score of 0 through 9.
- Able to consent for themselves.
- Likely to receive at least one upper limb intervention session as determined by the treating clinical team.
Exclusion criteria
- Existing co-morbidities that limit upper limb function and usual care treatment provided as determined by the treating clinical team e.g., neural or orthopeadic
- Receiving palliative care or have a limited life expectancy
- Deemed unable or unnecessary to participate in upper limb intervention by the treating clinical team
- Treating Occupational Therapist and local allied health assistant declined to participate in the research preventing recording of usual care data
- Unable to follow basic instructions in English
Group 2: Clinicians
Inclusion criteria
- Occupational therapist or allied health assistant working with the stroke population in an acute or subacute settings within Austin Health.
- At least four months of clinical experience
Exclusion criteria
- Clinicians expected to move into another clinical area within one month.
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: No
Study design
- Observational model
- Other
Study locations
Australia · 1 center
- Austin Health — Melbourne
Identifiers
NCT: NCT06527261 · HREC/107078/Austin-2024