COGNITIVE ORIENTED STRATEGY AUGMENTED REHABILITATION (COSTAR) FOR STROKE

描述（由申请人提供）：本R03申请的中心论点是，将认知导向策略纳入当代中风康复将导致更有效的功能技能习得，更好的长期保留所学技能，以及将所学技能推广和转移到家庭，社区和工作环境中。该项目的长期目标是制定一种干预方法，以改善中风后的整体健康和参与结果。目前的项目目标是在一项I期随机对照试验（RCT）中评估一种新的康复方案的可行性和初步疗效，该方案将认知导向策略用于增强当前卒中康复方案-任务特异性训练（TST）。新的治疗方案被称为认知导向策略增强康复，或COSTAR。本研究的具体目的是完成COSTAR下一阶段的开发，并为未来的II期RCT做准备，以确定该方法在改善卒中后预后方面的疗效。本研究的第一个具体目标将是完成COSTAR的迭代试点测试并完善COSTAR协议。这将通过在3-4名卒中患者中测试COSTAR方案来完成，以确保(1)COSTAR没有更多必要的修改；(2)治疗治疗师能够可靠地实施干预；(3)调查人员、治疗师、患者或家属没有其他问题/顾虑；(4)结果测量能够在合理的时间框架内可靠地实施。本研究的第二个具体目的是完成一项探索性单盲I期随机对照试验，比较COSTAR （n =18）和TST （n =18）方案。主要结果如下：(1)培训技能的表现质量；(2)培训后技能的习得率；(3)将在治疗中学到的技能推广到家庭、社区和工作环境；(4)未训练技能的表现质量（转移）；(5)全面参与日常生活活动。对连续数据采用2x2重复测量方差分析，对分类数据采用卡方分析，确定组间和组内结果测量的差异。如果基线数据表明样本在以下潜在关键变量上存在差异，则将分析调整为ANCOVA:(1)年龄；(2)性;(3)文化程度；（四）婚姻状况；(5)基线损伤。这些数据将用于完成功效分析，以确定II期RCT所需的样本量。该建议的创新之处在于，它结合了两种已知的干预方法，以提高卒中康复的有效性。重要的是，中风患者的功能下降的风险很高，这种方法旨在以一种既有效又高效的方式增加他们的独立性，并允许他们在康复计划出院后长期保持独立性。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The central thesis of this R03 application is that incorporating cognitive-oriented strategies into contemporary stroke rehabilitation will result in more efficient functional skill acquisition, better long-term retention of skills learned, and generalization and transfer of skills learned to home, community, and work settings. The long-term objective of this project is to develop an intervention approach that will improve overall health and participation outcomes after stroke. The current project objective is to evaluate in a phase I randomized controlled trial (RCT) the feasibility and preliminary efficacy of a new rehabilitation protocol that augments a current stroke rehabilitation protocol, task-specific training (TST), with cognitive-oriented strategy use. The new treatment protocol is called Cognitive-Oriented Strategy Augmented Rehabilitation, or COSTAR. The specific aims of this study were designed to complete the next phase of COSTAR's development and prepare for a future phase II RCT to determine the efficacy of this approach in improving outcomes after stroke. The first specific aim of this study will be to complete iterative pilot testing of COSTAR and refine the COSTAR protocol. This will be accomplished by testing the COSTAR protocol with 3-4 participants with stroke to ensure that (1) there are no more necessary modifications to COSTAR; (2) the treating therapists can reliably administer the intervention; (3) there are no remaining questions/concerns from the investigators, therapists, patients, or families; and (4) the outcome measures can reliably be administered in a reasonable time frame. The second specific aim of this study will be to complete an exploratory single-blinded phase I RCT with persons with stroke to compare the COSTAR (n =18) and the TST (n = 18) protocols. The primary outcomes will be the following: (1) quality of performance of trained skills; (2) rate of sill acquisition on trained skills; (3) generalization of skills learned in treatment to home, community and work environments; (4) quality of performance of untrained skills (transfer); and (5) overall participation in everyday life activities. 2x2 repeated measures analysis of variance analyses for continuous data and Chi-square analyses for categorical data will be used to determine the differences between and within groups on the outcome measures. Analyses will be adjusted to ANCOVA if baseline data indicate samples are different for potentially critical variables such as the following: (1) age; (2) sex; (3) education level; (4) marital status; and (5) baseline impairment. These data will be used to complete a power analysis to determine sample size necessary for a phase II RCT. The innovation of this proposal is that it combines two known intervention approaches in order to enhance the effectiveness of stroke rehabilitation. The significance is that those with stroke are at high risk for declining function and this approach seeks to increase their independence in a manner that is both effective and efficient and allow them to maintain their independence for the long term after discharge from a rehabilitation program.