My Stroke Team (MYST): Stroke App Pilot Study

• Register: ClinicalTrials.gov
• Last refreshed on: 12 December 2020
• Main ID: NCT02230280
• Date of registration: 28/08/2014
• Prospective Registration: Yes
• Primary sponsor: McMaster University
• Public title: My Stroke Team (MYST): Stroke App Pilot Study
• Scientific title: Strengthening Community-Based Stroke Care: A Pilot Study of a Community Navigation and Rehabilitation Intervention That Includes a Mobile Health Solution
• Date of first enrolment: May 8, 2017
• Target sample size: 30
• Recruitment status: Completed
• URL: https://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT02230280
• Study type: Interventional
• Study design: Allocation: N/A. Intervention model: Single Group Assignment. Primary purpose: Health Services Research. Masking: None (Open Label).
• Phase: N/A

Countries of recruitment

Canada

Contacts

• Name: Maureen Markle-Reid, RN, PhD
• Affiliation: McMaster University

Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

- Participants are newly referred for outpatient rehabilitation with a confirmed
diagnosis of stroke (first ever or recurrent) within the past 12 months, and are not
planning to move away from the community in the next 6 months. Participants have at
least 2 predetermined comorbid conditions, and must have the capacity to provide
informed consent, either independently or by substitute decision maker.

Exclusion Criteria:

- Participants will be excluded if they are unable to read and understand English and do
not have access to a translator.



Age minimum: 55 Years
Age maximum: N/A
Gender: All

Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied

Stroke

Chronic Disease

Comorbidity

Intervention(s)

Other: Strengthening Community-Based Stroke Care: A Pilot Study of a Community Navigation and Rehabilitation Intervention that Includes a Mobile Health Solution

Primary Outcome(s)

Feasibility of the mobile application as part of the intervention. [Time Frame: At the end of the intervention (6 months)]

Changes in health-related quality of life (HRQoL) for both stroke survivors and caregivers as measured by the SF-12 [Time Frame: Baseline and the end of the intervention (6 months from baseline)]

Secondary Outcome(s)

Change in the community integration of stroke patients. [Time Frame: Baseline and end of the intervention (6 months from baseline)]

Change in prevalence and severity of anxiety. [Time Frame: Baseline and end of intervention (6 months from baseline)]

Change in team functioning. [Time Frame: At three months into the intervention study and upon completion of the study (16 months)]

Changes in the degree of physical functioning related to stroke. [Time Frame: Baseline and the end of the intervention (6 months from baseline)]

Change in the self efficacy of stroke survivors. [Time Frame: Baseline and end of the intervention (6 months from baseline)]

Change in level of integration between home care providers. [Time Frame: At three months into the intervention study and upon completion of the study (16 months)]

Change in the costs of use of health services by stroke survivors and family caregivers [Time Frame: Baseline and end of intervention (6 months from baseline)]

Change in the prevalence and severity of depression symptoms in stroke survivors and family caregivers. [Time Frame: Baseline and the end of the intervention (6 months from baseline)]

Change in the degree of strain of family caregiver. [Time Frame: Baseline and the end of the intervention (6months from baseline)]

Secondary ID(s)

STPILOT-134162

Source(s) of Monetary Support

Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors