The Effects of Offline Anosognosia For Spatial Neglect on Neglect Rehabilitation

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Total Enrollment

85 participants

Study Classification

OBSERVATIONAL

Study Start Date

2021-11-29

Study Completion Date

2021-12-15

Brief Summary

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Anosognosia for hemispatial neglect is an intriguing phenomenon characterized by decreased awareness of spatial deficits, common in patients with right hemisphere stroke. However, it has not been examined as extensively as anosognosia for hemiplegia. In this study, we aim to investigate the relationship between the decrease in anosognosia for neglect and the improvement of spatial deficits.

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Detailed Description

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Babinski described the term "anosognosia" in 1914 as a phenomenon characterized by unawareness of the paralysis in patients with right hemisphere lesions. Now, this term is used for not only ignorance of hemiplegia but also unawareness of somatosensory, visual deficits, or cognitive disorders like aphasia and memory problems. Another phenomenon, hemispatial neglect (HN), is inattention and decreased responsiveness to the contralesional half of the space that cannot be attributed to the primary motor and sensory deficits. In this perspective, anosognosia for spatial neglect is an intriguing issue. Chen et al. have proposed two different domains of anosognosia for HN. Offline (general) anosognosia means the unawareness of spatial deficits based on daily living experiences. Online (task-specific) anosognosia refers to underestimating spatial errors that are likely to occur in an upcoming task or have just occurred during the task. In this study, we will investigate the relationship between HN and offline anosognosia for HN in right hemisphere injured patients. Besides, we aim to examine how the increased awareness of spatial problems in daily life could affect the success of HN rehabilitation.

This retrospective cohort study will be conducted based on the medical records of HN patients with right hemisphere injury hospitalized in our rehabilitation clinic between 2012 and 2019. Demographic data such as age, gender, weeks after disease onset, rehabilitation duration; and clinical data such as HN severity, extinction phenomena, anosognosia level, sensorimotor functions of the affected (left) extremities, functional ambulation, and independence in activities of daily living will be extracted from medical records. The severities of HN and anosognosia for HN will be determined based on the scores of the Catherine Bergego Scale (CBS) assessments. The cohort will be divided into groups as anosognosia-positive and anosognosia-negative regarding the anosognosia scores of patients. Baseline parameters will be compared between the two groups. A patient-specific neglect rehabilitation program comprising 30-45-minute sessions five times a week will be considered, having been routinely administered to all patients to be included in this cohort. Based on this assumption, clinical data recorded at discharge will be included in the final analysis regarding the effect of rehabilitation on HN.

Conditions

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Hemispatial Neglect Hemiplegia Right Hemispheric Stroke Anosognosia

Study Design

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Observational Model Type

COHORT

Study Time Perspective

RETROSPECTIVE

Study Groups

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Anosognosia-negative group

Patients will be included in the anosognosia-negative group if they achieved zero or negative anosognosia score before rehabilitation.

Patient-tailored multimodal neglect rehabilitation

Intervention Type OTHER

Patient-tailored neglect rehabilitation program which comprises 30-45 minutes of sessions, five times per week includes a combination of reading, copying, and representational drawing tasks with visual or verbal cueing, visual scanning, mirror therapy, and allocation of attention to the neglected side using multimodal stimulus in daily activities.

Anosognosia-positive group

Patients will be included in the anosognosia-positive group if they achieved at least one positive anosognosia score before rehabilitation. The anosognosia score for HN will be calculated by subtracting the patient's self-evaluation score from the score assigned by the rehabilitation nurse using the parallel Catherine Bergego Scale.

Patient-tailored multimodal neglect rehabilitation

Intervention Type OTHER

Patient-tailored neglect rehabilitation program which comprises 30-45 minutes of sessions, five times per week includes a combination of reading, copying, and representational drawing tasks with visual or verbal cueing, visual scanning, mirror therapy, and allocation of attention to the neglected side using multimodal stimulus in daily activities.

Interventions

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Patient-tailored multimodal neglect rehabilitation

Patient-tailored neglect rehabilitation program which comprises 30-45 minutes of sessions, five times per week includes a combination of reading, copying, and representational drawing tasks with visual or verbal cueing, visual scanning, mirror therapy, and allocation of attention to the neglected side using multimodal stimulus in daily activities.

Intervention Type OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Being older than 18 years of age
* Having subacute or chronic right hemisphere injury
* Having left-sided hemispatial neglect based on Catherine Bergego Scale assessment.

Exclusion Criteria

* Acute cerebral injury (within the first two weeks of disease),
* Bilateral cerebral lesions
* Other neurological and psychiatric disorders that prevent evaluation of HN (e.g., severe cognitive or primer visual impairment)

Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No