Poststroke Fatigue Clinical Trial
Official title:
The Study in the Correlation Between the Severity of Post-stroke Fatigue and the Severity of qi Deficiency and Blood Stasis in Chinese Medicine.
The purpose of the present study was to investigate the correlation between the severity of fatigue, and the severity of qi deficiency and blood stasis.
Status | Recruiting |
Enrollment | 90 |
Est. completion date | June 2013 |
Est. primary completion date | June 2013 |
Accepts healthy volunteers | No |
Gender | Both |
Age group | 40 Years to 80 Years |
Eligibility |
Inclusion Criteria: 1. Gender: men or women 2. Age:40~80 years old 3. Stroke history at least 3 months 4. Hemorrhage or ischemic stoke 5. Conscious clear and can communicate 6. Brief Fatigue Inventory-Taiwan form score = 4 7. Sign informed consent Exclusion Criteria: 1. Patient with psychotic diagnosis and can't cooperate with researcher 2. Major disease: chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, heart failure, myocardial infarction, chronic renal failure, liver cirrhosis 3. Pregnant women 4. Breastfeeding women |
Time Perspective: Cross-Sectional
Country | Name | City | State |
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Taiwan | China Medical University Hospital | Taichung |
Lead Sponsor | Collaborator |
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China Medical University Hospital |
Taiwan,
Type | Measure | Description | Time frame | Safety issue |
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Primary | Frome Fatigue severity level scale to evaluate fatigue severity score. | When patient visit first time,we complete all the evaluation scale. Total evaluation time is about 20 minutes. And all data will be analyzed one year later. | about 20 minutes | No |