SIRRACT: An International Randomized Clinical Trial of Activity Feedback During Inpatient Stroke Rehabilitation Enabled by Wireless Sensing
Initiatives
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Our aim for this trial was to motivate patients and their therapists to engage in greater skills practice to obtain improved walking-related outcomes. We endeavored to demonstrate the feasibility of deploying sensors in inpatient rehabilitation centers regardless of culture, language, or familiarity with clinical research.
Note: All published information has been collected from the article referenced in the Marker Paper box below. Therefore, there may be variations with more advanced versions of the study.
- Start Year
- 2011
- Funding
- Data analysis and support for study coordination at UCLA was partially funded by NIH/NICHD R01 HD07809 to Dr. Dobkin and by NIH/NCATS grant UL1TR000124.
Design
- Study design
- Clinical trial cohort
Marker Paper
Dorsch AK, Thomas S, Xu X, Kaiser W, Dobkin BH; SIRRACT investigators. SIRRACT: An International Randomized Clinical Trial of Activity Feedback During Inpatient Stroke Rehabilitation Enabled by Wireless Sensing. Neurorehabil Neural Repair. 2015;29(5):407‐415. doi:10.1177/1545968314550369
PUBMED 25261154
Recruitment
- Sources of Recruitment
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- Individuals
Number of participants
- Number of participants
- 135
- Number of participants with biosamples
Access
Availability of data and biosamples
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Timeline
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Study sites reported screening 135 patients who were highly likely to meet entry criteria between March 2011 and October 2012.
Selection Criteria
- Newborns
- Twins
- Ethnic Origin
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- Health Status
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- stroke of any type with residual hemiparesis,
- Other criteria
- Exclusion criteria included aphasia limiting the ability to follow 2-step commands and ongoing medical disease limiting participation in physical therapy. Patients who had suffered a prior stroke were eligible for participation if they had experienced full motor recovery.
Recruitment
- Sources of recruitment
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- Specific population
- Specific Population
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- Clinic patients
Number of participants
- Number of participants
- 135
- Number of participants with biosamples
Data Collection Event
In this phase III randomized, single blind clinical trial, patients participated in conventional therapies while wearing wireless sensors (tri-axial accelerometers) at both ankles. Activity-recognition algorithms calculated the speed, distance, and duration of walking bouts. Three times a week, therapists provided either feedback about performance on a 10-meter walk (speed-only) or walking speed feedback plus a review of walking activity recorded by the sensors (augmented).
- Start Date
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2011-03
- End Date
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2012-10
- Data sources
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Mobile data collection
- Smartwatch and wearables
- tri-axial accelerometers
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Mobile data collection