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Emotional Recovery Post-Stroke

Description

The purpose of this study is to evaluate whether adding an emotional wellness component to occupational therapy (OT) and/or speech therapy (ST) telerehabilitation improves overall emotional well-being and activity participation for people with stroke.

Conditions

StrokeMental Health Wellness 1
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Study Details

Study overview

The purpose of this study is to evaluate whether adding an emotional wellness component to occupational therapy (OT) and/or speech therapy (ST) telerehabilitation improves overall emotional well-being and activity participation for people with stroke.

Centering Emotional Recovery Post-Stroke

Emotional Recovery Post-Stroke

Condition
Stroke
Intervention / Treatment

-

Contacts and Locations

Charleston

Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, United States, 29425

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

For general information about clinical research, read Learn About Studies.

Eligibility Criteria

  • * Self-reported stroke-related deficits in emotional wellness such as anxiety, sleep disturbance, dread, fear, loss of hope, sadness.
  • * Have experienced ischemic or hemorrhagic stroke at least 30 days prior
  • * Stroke-related aphasia and/or upper extremity hemiparesis
  • * Aged 21 years or older
  • * English as primary language
  • * Have corrected vision to be able to read text on a screen
  • * Able to participate fully in the study's tele-rehabilitation (Aim 1) and/or virtual group programing (Aim 2) with personally owned device (i.e., phone, tablet, or laptop) and personal Wi-Fi connection or cellular service
  • * Cognitive, language, and motor capacity to participate fully in the study's assessment session as per the judgment of the licensed, experienced stroke tele-rehabilitation occupational or speech therapist
  • * Unable to follow 1-2 step instructions given by the study team member during the informed consent procedures.
  • * Pain that interferes with ability to participate in the study's upper extremity movement tasks.
  • * Have impaired decision making capacity as determined by the U-ARE protocol for assessing capacity to provide informed consent.

Ages Eligible for Study

21 Years to

Sexes Eligible for Study

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Collaborators and Investigators

Medical University of South Carolina,

Michelle Woodbury, PhD, PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR, Medical University of South Carolina

Lisa McTeague, PhD, PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR, Medical University of South Carolina

Deena Blackett, PhD, PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR, University of Central Florida

Study Record Dates

2027-12