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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
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Recovernow: A mobile tablet-based therapy platform for early stroke rehabilitation
PLoS ONE, Volume 14, No. 1, Article e0210725, Year 2019
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Introduction Stroke survivors frequently experience a range of post-stroke deficits. Specialized stroke rehabilitation improves recovery, especially if it is started early post-stroke. However, resource limitations often preclude early rehabilitation. Mobile technologies may provide a platform for stroke survivors to begin recovery when they might not be able to otherwise. The study objective was to demonstrate the feasibility of RecoverNow, a tablet-based stroke recovery platform aimed at delivering speech and cognitive therapy. Methods We recruited a convenience sample of 30 acute stroke patients to use RecoverNow for up to 3 months. Allied health professionals assigned specific applications based on standard of care assessments. Participants were encouraged to take home the RecoverNow tablets upon discharge from acute care. The study team contacted participants to return for a follow-up interview 3 months after enrollment. The primary outcome of interest was feasibility, defined using 5 facets: recruitment rate, adherence rate, retention rate, the proportion of successful follow-up interventions, and protocol deviations. We tracked barriers to tablet-based care as a secondary outcome. Results We successfully recruited 30 of 62 eligible patients in 15 weeks (48% recruitment rate). Participants were non-adherent to tablet-based therapy inside and outside of acute care, using RecoverNow for a median of 12 minutes a day. Retention was high with 23 of 30 patients participating in follow-up interviews (77% retention rate) and all but 3 of the 23 interviews (87%) were successfully completed. Only 2 major protocol deviations occurred: one enrollment failure and one therapy protocol violation. Barriers to tablet-based care were frequently encountered by study participants with many expressing the assigned applications were either too easy or too difficult. Conclusions Acute stroke patients are interested in attempting tablet-based stroke rehabilitation and are easily recruited early post-stroke. However, tablet-based therapy may be challenging due to patient, device and system-related barriers. Reducing the frequency of common barriers will be essential to keeping patients engaged in tablet-based therapy. Copyright: © 2019 Pugliese et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Authors & Co-Authors
Ramsay, Timothy O.
Canada, Ottawa
University of Ottawa
Canada, Ottawa
Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
Shamloul, Rany M.
Canada, Ottawa
Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
Stotts, Grant
Canada, Ottawa
Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
Canada, Ottawa
L'hôpital D'ottawa
Canada, Ottawa
University of Ottawa
Shamy, Michel Christopher Frank
Canada, Ottawa
Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
Canada, Ottawa
L'hôpital D'ottawa
Wilson, Kumanan R.
Canada, Ottawa
University of Ottawa
Canada, Ottawa
Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
Canada, Ottawa
L'hôpital D'ottawa
Dowlatshahi, Dar
Canada, Ottawa
University of Ottawa
Canada, Ottawa
Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
Canada, Ottawa
L'hôpital D'ottawa
Statistics
Citations: 20
Authors: 6
Affiliations: 4
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1371/journal.pone.0210725
ISSN:
19326203
Research Areas
Disability
Health System And Policy
Noncommunicable Diseases
Study Design
Cohort Study