A customized home-based computerized cognitive rehabilitation platform for patients with chronic-stage stroke: Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

Trials

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2018, Pages

  Gil Pagés, Macarena ^a,b,c   Solana, Javier ^a,b,c   Sánchez Carrión, Rocío ^a,b,c   Tormos, Jose M ^a,b,c   Enseñat Cantallops, Antonia ^a,b,c   García Molina, Alberto ^a,b,c  

^a University Institute affiliated with the Autonomous University of Barcelona   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c FUNDACIÓ INSTITUT D INVESTIGACIÓ EN CIÈNCIES DE LA SALUT GERMANS TRIAS I PUJOL   (Spain)

Author keywords

Chronic; Cognitive impairment; Computerized cognitive rehabilitation; Randomized controlled trial; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY OF DAILY LIVING ASSESSMENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COGNITIVE REHABILITATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FREQUENCY; HOME REHABILITATION; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PERSONALIZED MEDICINE; PILOT STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RATING SCALE; SHAM PROCEDURE; STROKE PATIENT; TELEMEDICINE; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; COGNITION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STROKE REHABILITATION; TELEREHABILITATION;

CHRONIC DISEASE; COGNITION; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PILOT PROJECTS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; STROKE; STROKE REHABILITATION; TELEREHABILITATION;

EID: 85044308262     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17456215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13063-018-2577-8     Document Type: Article

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