Intervention on Caregivers Caring for Patients Poststroke With Upper Limb Apraxia

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• Last refreshed on: 12 December 2020
• Main ID: NCT02307019
• Date of registration: 01/12/2014
• Prospective Registration: No
• Primary sponsor: Universidad de Granada
• Public title: Intervention on Caregivers Caring for Patients Poststroke With Upper Limb Apraxia CPA
• Scientific title: Intervention on Caregivers Caring for Patients Poststroke With Upper Limb Apraxia: Randomized Clinical Trial
• Date of first enrolment: July 2014
• Target sample size: 50
• Recruitment status: Completed
• URL: https://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT02307019
• Study type: Interventional
• Study design: Allocation: Randomized. Intervention model: Parallel Assignment. Primary purpose: Treatment. Masking: Double (Care Provider, Investigator).
• Phase: N/A

Countries of recruitment

Spain

Contacts

• Name: Mª Encarnacion ME Aguilar, PhD
• Affiliation: Department of Physiotherapy. Faculty of Sciences of Health. University of Granada (Granada). Spain

Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

- Having an habitual role of carer (informal or formal).

- Being caring a mild-moderate poststroke patient with upper limb apraxia.

- Subjective manifestations of overload in the role as carer.

- More than two month as carer.

Exclusion Criteria:

- Uncooperativeness

- Being formed in the care of that kind of patients



Age minimum: 18 Years
Age maximum: 90 Years
Gender: All

Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied

Performance Anxiety

Emotional Stress

Intervention(s)

Other: Program on general prevention of health

Other: Program on specific prevention of health

Primary Outcome(s)

Change from Baseline in Stroke Impact Scale (SIS-16) at 16 weeks [Time Frame: Sixteen weeks]

Change from Baseline in Stroke Impact Scale (SIS-16) at 8 weeks [Time Frame: Eight weeks]

Secondary Outcome(s)

Change from Baseline in family APGAR at 8 weeks [Time Frame: Eight weeks]

Change from Baseline in Disabilities of the Arm, Shoulder and Hand (Quick-DASH) at 8 weeks [Time Frame: Eight weeks]

Change from Baseline in Duke-UNC-11 questionnaire of functional social support at 8 weeks [Time Frame: Eight weeks]

Change from Baseline in General health questionnaire (GHQ-28) at 8 weeks [Time Frame: Eight weeks]

Change from Baseline in Duke-UNC-11 questionnaire of functional social support at 16 weeks [Time Frame: Sixteen weeks]

Change from Baseline in Barthel index at 8 weeks [Time Frame: Eight weeks]

Change from Baseline in Disabilities of the Arm, Shoulder and Hand (Quick-DASH) at 16 weeks [Time Frame: Sixteen weeks]

Change from Baseline in family APGAR at 16 weeks [Time Frame: sixteen weeks]

Change from Baseline in Zarit questionnaire at 16 weeks [Time Frame: Sixteen weeks]

Change from Baseline in General health questionnaire (GHQ-28) at 16 weeks [Time Frame: Sixteen weeks]

Change from Baseline in Zarit questionnaire at 8 weeks [Time Frame: Eight weeks]

Change from Baseline in Barthel index at 16 weeks [Time Frame: Sixteen weeks]

Secondary ID(s)

Caregiver patients apraxia

Source(s) of Monetary Support

Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors