The Effect of Art Therapy on Patients With Stroke

NCT ID: NCT04038424

Last Updated: 2025-08-14

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 60 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2025-12-30
• Study Completion Date: 2027-12-30

Brief Summary

Stroke can affect the physical, emotional and social aspects of the patient and their family members. It is the main cause of complex disability, with a high number of people living with its effects. Stroke can result in impairments in motor function, language, cognition, sensory processing, cognition, and emotional disturbances, which can affect the performance of functional activities and mental health status. Getting patients involved in art therapy (AT) class has shown to alleviate stress and promote a sense of wellbeing, which can aid their recovery and rehabilitation. The benefits of art therapy for people living with different health conditions worldwide have been reported, however, its effect on Egyptian patients with stroke has been neglected.

Detailed Description

Art therapy refers to a group of techniques including painting, drawing and listening to music. The participants will receive the program on three steps (early step, middle step, and late step). These steps aim to train the participants on the AT from simple to complex and motivate them to engage in the AT program.Therefore, this study aims to investigate the effect of art therapy on cognitive ability, arm activity and mental health status of patients with stroke.

Conditions

Ischemic Stroke and Hemorrhagic Stroke

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: SUPPORTIVE_CARE
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

Study group

The intervention group (n = 30) will receive Routine Hospital Management (RHM), conventional rehabilitation activity and AT (painting, coloring, listening to music and Hand Therapy Ball Exercises). Overall 9 sessions over a period of three weeks will be performed and each session will take around 30 min.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Art therapy

Intervention Type: OTHER

Art therapy including coloring, painting and listening to music

Control group

The control group (n = 30) will receive only the Routine Hospital Management (RHM) and the department conventional rehabilitation activity.

Group Type: NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

Art therapy

Art therapy including coloring, painting and listening to music

Intervention Type: OTHER

Other Intervention Names

Hand Therapy Ball Exercises

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• able to sit upright, supported or unsupported,
• oriented to time and place by using the adapted Arabic Memory Screening Test,
• able to perform at least two of the following skills: drinking from a cup, eating with a spoon and taking money from a purse by the affected arm, and
• will stay in the stroke unit to at least 4 days (for receiving three sessions out of all sessions) before discharge,

Exclusion Criteria

• diagnosis of transient ischemic attack or brain stem stroke;
• unconscious;
• unable to provide informed consent;
• hemodynamical unstable medical conditions, including fever;
• serious infectious diseases, for example, viral hepatitis or HIV; and/or
• severe dementia or uncontrolled psychiatric problems.

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 65 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Cairo University

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Naglaa Fathy Afifi Youssef

Professor

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Locations

Unit of stroke and cerebral vascular disease treatment

Cairo, , Egypt

Countries

Egypt

Central Contacts

Naglaa FA Youssef, PhD

Role: CONTACT

youssef_naglaa@cu.edu.eg

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Naglaa FA Youssef, PhD

Role: CONTACT

youssef_naglaa@cu.edu.eg

Facility Contacts

Ahmed Abdelalem, Professor

Role: primary

Other Identifiers

2019-44

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id