High Intensity Interval Training After Stroke

• Register: ClinicalTrials.gov
• Last refreshed on: 12 December 2020
• Main ID: NCT02550015
• Date of registration: 08/09/2015
• Prospective Registration: No
• Primary sponsor: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
• Public title: High Intensity Interval Training After Stroke
• Scientific title: The Effect of High Intensity Interval Training on Maximal Oxygen Uptake and Risk Factors for Recurrent Stroke
• Date of first enrolment: September 2015
• Target sample size: 70
• Recruitment status: Completed
• URL: https://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT02550015
• Study type: Interventional
• Study design: Allocation: Randomized. Intervention model: Parallel Assignment. Primary purpose: Treatment. Masking: Single (Outcomes Assessor).
• Phase: N/A

Countries of recruitment

Norway

Contacts

• Name: Torunn Askim, phd
• Affiliation: Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

- Approved informed consent

- Independent walking > 2 minutes

- First episode of stroke (ischemic or hemorrhagic)

- Minimum 3 months post-stroke

- Living in the community and able to travel to assessment and training site

- Approval to participate from the study's responsible medical doctor

- Modified Rankin Scale 0-3

Exclusion Criteria:

- Impaired cognitive function to give valid informed consent to participate

- Instability of cardiac conditions (ie. serious rhythm disorder, valve malfunction)

- Other conditions where test of maximal oxygen uptake is contraindicated

- Poorly controlled hypertension (>180/100), measured at rest

- > 5 years post stroke

- Subarachnoid hemorrhage

- Participating in other ongoing intervention study

- Other serious illness influencing testing of cardiorespiratory fitness and function at
1 year follow-up



Age minimum: 18 Years
Age maximum: 75 Years
Gender: All

Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied

Stroke

Intervention(s)

Behavioral: General information

Behavioral: High intensity interval training

Primary Outcome(s)

Maximal Oxygen Uptake [Time Frame: 1 year after inclusion]

Secondary Outcome(s)

Self reported physical activity level assessed by International Physical Activity Questionnaire [Time Frame: 8 weeks and 12 months after inclusion]

Balance tested with the Bergs Balance Test [Time Frame: 8 weeks and 12 months after inclusion]

Independence assessed by Functional Independence Measure (FIM) [Time Frame: 8 weeks and 12 months after inclusion]

Cognitive function assessed by Montreal Cognitive Assessment and Trail Making A and B [Time Frame: 8 weeks and 12 months after inclusion]

Change in Blood tests [Time Frame: 8 weeks and 12 months after inclusion]

Leisure time activity and inactive time [Time Frame: 8 weeks and 12 months after inclusion]

Walking speed [Time Frame: 8 weeks and 12 months after inclusion]

Walking distance [Time Frame: 8 weeks and 12 months after inclusion]

Change in blood pressure (systolic and diastolic) [Time Frame: 8 weeks and 12 months after inclusion]

Secondary ID(s)

2015/563

Source(s) of Monetary Support

Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors