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Trial registered on ANZCTR

Registration number

ACTRN12616001056482

Ethics application status

Approved

Date submitted

1/07/2016

Date registered

8/08/2016

Date last updated

13/07/2017

Type of registration

Retrospectively registered

Titles & IDs

Public title

Efficacy of computer versus group memory training for memory rehabilitation post-stroke

Scientific title

A Comparison of Compensatory and Restorative Approaches to Memory Rehabilitation Post-STroke

Secondary ID [1]

Nil known

Universal Trial Number (UTN)

Trial acronym

Linked study record

Health condition

Health condition(s) or problem(s) studied:

cognition

memory loss

Condition category

Condition code

Stroke

Ischaemic

Stroke

Haemorrhagic

Intervention/exposure

Study type

Interventional

Description of intervention(s) / exposure

Participants will be randomly allocated into one of three conditions; restoration, compensation or a wait list control group. Participants allocated into the restoration condition will be asked to complete six weeks of computer memory training while participants in the compensation condition will be asked to attend a face to face memory group once a week for six weeks. Further details of each respective intervention are provided below.

For the computer memory training (i.e. restoration condition), participants will be required to complete a project specific suite of memory games developed in collaboration with Lumos labs. Training is completed on a computer at home for 30 minutes, five times per week for six weeks. Participants can flexibly decide upon which days and times to train . There are 13 different memory games that form apart of the training, with each session alternating between these games. Researchers will be in regular contact with participants throughout the 6 week training period to address any concerns or technical complications. Frequency of training will be monitored electronically by researchers.

For the group memory sessions (i.e. compensation), participants will be required to attend a face to face memory skills group for 2 hours on a weekday for a six week period. The groups are held in Notting Hill, the Austin Hospital and Monash Health sites and are run by neuropsychologists who have experience in the field of brain injury. Groups provide participants with education surrounding the impact of stroke on memory and cover a number of strategies that aim to minimise the impact of these changes on daily functioning. For instance, the group covers strategies that may be helpful to remember peoples names. Compliance with group training will be monitored using a register of attendance at each session. We will attempt to match participants to the closest group where possible.

Finally all participants will be asked to complete 'pen and paper' memory tasks immediately prior to the rehabilitation, immediately following the rehabilitation and at a six week follow up.

Intervention code [1]

Rehabilitation

Intervention code [2]

Treatment: Other

Comparator / control treatment

If allocated to the waitlist control condition, participants will be placed on a waiting list for a 12 week period but will be given the choice about which rehabilitation they would like to complete (i.e. either the group or the computer training).

Control group

Active

Outcomes

Primary outcome [1]

Goal Attainment Scaling will be used to evaluate the extent to which participants percieve thier personalised memory goals were accomplished during the course of the intervention.

Timepoint [1]