Active Cue-Training in Neglect

NCT ID: NCT02945592

Last Updated: 2018-03-06

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

26 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2016-10-31

Study Completion Date

2018-01-31

Brief Summary

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The presented study investigates standardized visual cueing in reading and visual spatial task as a treatment method for spatial neglect. In a randomized controlled design patients receive either cued reading and visual spatial tasks (intervention) or treatment which is unspecific to neglect (control).

In the intervention condition, patients with left-sided neglect receive intense training, including reading and visual spatial task with standardized and adapted visual cueing by the therapist. Improvements in reading and visual spatial tasks lead to a reduction of cues by the therapist. Accordingly, the patient has to apply self-cueing over time in order to solve the task.

For the control condition, all patients receive unspecific treatment without any standardized adapted cueing implemented by the therapist.

To enhance the effectivity of cueing in reading and visual spatial tasks, the investigators additionally conduct parietal transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) in those patients without tDCS exclusion criteria (see exclusion criteria below).

It is hypothesised that systematic and adaptive therapeutic cueing leads to a significant reduction of omissions of word and word parts in reading.

UPDATE: No Add-on tDCS was performed since it was not applicable for our severly impaired patients due to the strict exclusion criteria of tDCS.

Detailed Description

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Conditions

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Hemispatial Neglect

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

CROSSOVER

Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

SINGLE

Participants

Study Groups

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Intervention

* adaptive, therapeutic cueing during reading tasks
* adaptive, therapeutic cueing during visuo spatial tasks

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Cueing

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Control

\- unspecific neglect treatment

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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Cueing

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Left sided neglect
* Capacity of at least 30 minutes
* Ability to read in German language
* Mobilization of 80%

Exclusion Criteria

* Previous known dementia
* Normal pressure hydrocephalus


* Shunt
* Craniectomy
* Epilepsy
* Other metal implants
Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Klinikum Bremen Ost

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Nergiz Turgut

MSc

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

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Helmut Hildebrandt, Prof. Dr.

Role: STUDY_DIRECTOR

Universität Oldenburg, Klinikum Bremen-Ost

Locations

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Klinikum Bremen-Ost

Bremen, , Germany

Site Status

Countries

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Germany

Other Identifiers

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367915

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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