Clinical trial NCT05793255: The Impact of Social Phone Calls on Adults Who Have Had a Stroke
Official title: The Impact of Social Phone Calls on Adults Who Have Had a Stroke
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Stroke
Keywords: stroke
phone calls
social support
loneliness
ischemic stroke
Lead sponsor: The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2023-03-31
Enrollment: 14
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: NA
Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: The purpose of this study is to see the impact of social visits, through weekly phone calls, on quality of life and health outcomes of depression, anxiety, loneliness, and self-rated health for adults who have experienced an ischemic or hemorrhagic stroke and to determine the benefit of these conversations on the student volunteer's perspective of adults who have survived a stroke


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* have a UCLA short form score of 4 or higher
* can read, write, and speak English
* have had an ischemic or hemorrhagic stroke is the past year
* have a telephone and are available for weekly phone calls
* provide informed consent agreeing to be contacted by the volunteers

Exclusion Criteria:

* reside outside of the home
* have Electronic Health Record documentation of Aphasia
* Montreal Cognitive Assessment score of \<9

Primary outcomes:
measure: Feasibility as assessed by the number of participants who enrolled in the study
timeFrame: post intervention (6 weeks from start of intervention)
measure: Feasibility as assessed by the number of participants who completed all 6 phone calls
timeFrame: post intervention (6 weeks from start of intervention)
measure: Feasibility as assessed by the number of participants who completed all the assessments
timeFrame: post intervention (6 weeks from start of intervention)
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Change in loneliness as assessed by the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Loneliness Scale
timeFrame: Baseline, post intervention (6 weeks from start of intervention)
measure: Change in depression as assessed by the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D)
timeFrame: Baseline, post intervention (6 weeks from start of intervention)
measure: Change in anxiety as assessed by the Generalized Anxiety Disorder 7 Scale (GAD 7)
timeFrame: Baseline, post intervention (6 weeks from start of intervention)
measure: Change in social support as assessed by the Duke Social Support Index (DSSI) Scale
timeFrame: Baseline, post intervention (6 weeks from start of intervention)
measure: Change in resilience as assessed by the brief resilience scale
timeFrame: Baseline, post intervention (6 weeks from start of intervention)
measure: Change in pain as assessed by the Brief Pain Inventory Short Form
timeFrame: Baseline, post intervention (6 weeks from start of intervention)
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Houston
country: United States
facility: The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
state: Texas
Study officials:
affiliation: The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston
name: Jennifer Beauchamp, PhD, RN
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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