Trial reportNeurorehabilitation and neural repair2015
Strategy Training Shows Promise for Addressing Disability in the First 6 Months After Stroke.
Trial report in Neurorehabilitation and neural repair, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05248178 (Pilot Testing of tDCS and Metacognitive Strategy Training in Chronic Stroke), which is not on this map. Cited by 34 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Pilot Testing of tDCS and Metacognitive Strategy Training in Chronic Stroke
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34 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 83 citations in OpenAlex.
- Behaviorally Informed Interventions to Promote Activity in the Home and Community for Adults With Neurological Disorders: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Physical therapy · 2025Pooled it
- Treatment of apathy in stroke patients: a systematic review.Frontiers in neurology · 2025Pooled it
- Occupational therapy for cognitive impairment in stroke patients.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2022Pooled it
- Cognitive rehabilitation for attention deficits following stroke.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2019Pooled it
- Process Evaluation of a Randomized Controlled Trial of an Enhanced Rehabilitation Transition Program for Stroke Survivors.Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation · 2026Trial
- Enhancing Societal Participation for Stroke Survivors With Cognitive Impairments: A Randomized Controlled Trial.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2025Trial
- Pilot RCT examining feasibility and disability outcomes of a mobile health platform for strategy training in inpatient stroke rehabilitation (iADAPT).Topics in stroke rehabilitation · 2023Trial
- Lesion location may attenuate response to strategy training in acute stroke.PM & R : the journal of injury, function, and rehabilitation · 2022Trial
- Executive Function Moderates Functional Outcomes of Engagement Strategies During Rehabilitation in Older Adults.American journal of physical medicine & rehabilitation · 2021Trial
- Guided Training Relative to Direct Skill Training for Individuals With Cognitive Impairments After Stroke: A Pilot Randomized Trial.Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation · 2017Trial
- Strategy Training During Inpatient Rehabilitation May Prevent Apathy Symptoms After Acute Stroke.PM & R : the journal of injury, function, and rehabilitation · 2015Trial
- Self-Awareness and Recovery of Independence With Strategy Training.The American journal of occupational therapy : official publication of the American Occupational Therapy AssociationTrial
- Combined Cognitive-Strategy and Task-Specific Training Affects Cognition and Upper-Extremity Function in Subacute Stroke: An Exploratory Randomized Controlled Trial.The American journal of occupational therapy : official publication of the American Occupational Therapy AssociationTrial
- Comparing the CO-OP ApproachBrain sciences · 2025Article
- Underrepresentation of Participants From Marginalized Racial and Ethnic Groups: A Secondary Analysis of the Cognitive Rehabilitation Literature.Archives of rehabilitation research and clinical translation · 2025Review
- Enhancing dyadic outcomes of stroke survivors and caregivers: protocol for a randomised controlled trial.BMJ open · 2025Article
- Ongoing Challenges Related to the COVID-19 Pandemic Among People With Brain Injury.OTJR : occupation, participation and health · 2024Article
- Hayling and stroop tests tap dissociable deficits and network-level neural correlates.Brain structure & function · 2024Article
- Incorporating Metacognitive Strategy Training Into Semantic Treatment Promotes Restitutive and Substitutive Gains in Naming: A Single-Subject Investigation.American journal of speech-language pathology · 2023Article
- Feasibility and Acceptability of a Remotely Delivered Executive Function Intervention That Combines Computerized Cognitive Training and Metacognitive Strategy Training in Chronic Stroke.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
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Abstract
backgroundCognitive impairments occur frequently after stroke and contribute to significant disability. Strategy training shows promise but has not been examined in the acute phase of recovery.
objectiveWe conducted a single-blind randomized pilot study estimating the effect of strategy training, relative to reflective listening (attention control), for reducing disability and executive cognitive impairments.
methodsThirty participants with acute stroke who were enrolled in inpatient rehabilitation and had cognitive impairments were randomized to receive strategy training (n = 15, 10 sessions as adjunct to usual inpatient rehabilitation) or reflective listening (n = 15, same dose). The Functional Independence Measure assessed disability at baseline, rehabilitation discharge, 3, and 6 months. The Color Word Interference Test of the Delis-Kaplan Executive Function System assessed selected executive cognitive impairments (inhibition, flexibility) at baseline, 3, and 6 months.
resultsChanges in Functional Independence Measure scores for the 2 groups over 6 months showed significant effects of group (F1,27 = 9.25, P = .005), time (F3,74 = 96.00, P < .001), and group * time interactions (F3,74 = 4.37, P < .007) after controlling for baseline differences in stroke severity (F1,27 = 6.74, P = .015). Color Word Interference Inhibition scores showed significant effects of group (F1,26 = 6.50, P = .017) and time (F2,34 = 4.74, P = .015), but the group * time interaction was not significant (F2,34 = 2.55, P = .093). Color Word Interference Cognitive Flexibility scores showed significant effects of group (F1,26 = 23.41, P < .001), time (F2,34 = 12.77, P < .001), and group * time interactions (F2,34 = 7.83, P < .002). Interaction effects suggested greater improvements were associated with strategy training.
conclusionsStrategy training shows promise for addressing disability in the first 6 months after stroke. Lessons from this pilot study may inform future clinical trials.
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