Virtual Action Planning in Stroke: a Control Rehabilitation Study

Effectiveness of Virtual Reality-based Cognitive Training in Daily Living in Stroke Patients Using Virtual Action Planning Supermarket (VAP-S)

Status

Completed

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Interventional

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT01365858

Acronym

VAPS REHAB

Enrollment

Registered

2011-06-03

Start date

2011-05-01

Completion date

2014-02-01

Last updated

2026-05-14

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Conditions

Stroke

Brief summary

* Background : The general experience with the Virtual Reality application approach suggests that this treatment concept is promising in stroke rehabilitation * Purpose : In shopping activity in a real supermarket and in simulated with the investigators virtual shopping simulation (VAP-S = virtual action planning supermarket), the investigators will compare people who had undergone a stroke who receive conventional rehabilitation or virtual training in VAP-S.

Detailed description

The objective of this study is firstly to examine the effectiveness of using virtual reality-based training VAP-S on the ability to run errands in a real supermarket in individuals with stroke. Virtual environment provide useful way to explore planning and secondly to examine the effectiveness of using VR in the assessment of cognitive planning for patients. A virtual supermarket was designed in which participants carried out a task close to daily activities: a test of shopping list. Of the 70 subjects (7 centres), 35 randomly allocated to the control group, and the other 35 subjects randomly allocated to the experimental group. Subjects will be evaluated by a therapist who will not be involved in the training program and did not know about the subject's group assignment. Statistical analysis : We will calculate descriptive statistics for the clinical characteristics of each group. We will use to compare the baseline demographic characteristics, the pretraining and posttraining variables between groups, independent-samples t-tests for means and Chi-square tests for frequencies. A significance level of 0.05 is set for all analyses.

Interventions

OTHERRehabilitation

The experimental group patients receive rehabilitation by training "Virtual Action Planning - Supermarket" on a computer 45 minutes 5 times a week during a 2-week period. The control group will receive similar duration cognitive rehabilitation (no extra computer training) during this period (problem solving and occupational therapy).

Study design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Intervention model

SINGLE_GROUP

Primary purpose

OTHER

Masking

SINGLE (Outcomes Assessor)

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

18 Years to No maximum

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

* Adults * 1 to 18 months after stroke * Without dementia or previous clinical stroke * With executive impairment (Grefex battery) * Barthel score equal or more than 40 * With cognitive disability leading to specific rehabilitation * Given and informed consent

Exclusion criteria

* dementia or severe psychiatric disease * epilepsy * disorder of consciousness * visual agnosia * severe visual impairment

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
Ability to perform shopping test in real supermarket (all items collected and all actions needed done)	After rehabilitation (day 16)

Secondary

Measure	Time frame
Time to perform all actions in real shop; performance in virtual shopping simulation (number of items, time, inappropriate actions); user and caregiver satisfaction.	Before (day 1) and after (day16) rehabilitation

Countries

France

Contacts

STUDY_CHAIRGeneviève CHENE, Pr

University Hospital, Bordeaux

PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATORPierre-Alain JOSEPH, Pr