Affective Touching on Poststroke Depression

Post-stroke Depression Clinical Trial

Official title: Family Caregivers Affective Touching for Improving Depressive Symptoms of Community Dwelling Stroke Survivors Through Security Priming

Status Recruiting

Clinical Trial Summary

This mixed-method study includes a randomised controlled trial and an exploratory qualitative study, and aims to examine the effects of caregiver-delivered affective touch on depressive symptoms, state of attachment security, self-esteem, and perceived family harmony among stroke survivors, and to explore the mediating effect of attachment security and how an intervention may affect depressive symptoms from stroke survivor's perspective. A total of 184 survivor-caregiver dyads will be recruited from various non-governmental organisations. The dyads will be randomly allocated to intervention (IG) and control (CG) groups, stratified by the survivor's attachment style. IG caregivers will be taught to deliver a 15-minute affective touch intervention to stroke survivors. To address the attention effect, CG caregivers will be asked to sit with the survivors during a 15-minute fine motor coordination exercise. Both activities, affective touching and fine motor exercise, will be performed for 12 weeks (3 times/week), and the outcomes mentioned earlier will be measured at baseline, 12 and 36 weeks after study entry.

Clinical Trial Description

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Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Depression
• Depressive Disorder
• Post-stroke Depression

• NCT number: NCT03789994
• Study type: Interventional
• Source: Chinese University of Hong Kong
• Contact: Ho Yu CHENG, PhD
• Phone: 85239436230
• Email: hycheng@cuhk.edu.hk
• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: December 1, 2019
• Completion date: June 30, 2022