mHealth associated with constraint-induced movement therapy in Stroke

• Grant number: 22/05664-3
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Start date: October 01, 2023
• End date: September 30, 2025
• Field of knowledge: Health Sciences - Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy
• Principal Investigator: Natalia Duarte Pereira
• Grantee: Natalia Duarte Pereira
• Host Institution: Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde (CCBS). Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCAR). São Carlos , SP, Brazil
• Associated researchers: David Morris ; Sarah Monteiro dos Anjos
• Associated scholarship(s): 24/20959-5 - mHealth associated with Constraint-Induced Movement Therapy in Stroke, BP.TT; 24/02984-2 - mHealth associated with Constraint-Induced Movement Therapy in Stroke, BP.TT; 24/01747-7 - mHealth associated with Constraint-Induced Movement Therapy in Stroke, BP.TT

Abstract

People with stroke establish a sedentary lifestyle, with a consequent reduction in body mobility and social participation. Intervention strategies associated to technology should stimulate the activity and mobility of individuals with stroke. As a technological strategy to help increase body activity and mobility, mHealth have the potential to transform the delivery of health care and can be useful in the management of chronic diseases and comorbidities. Among the applications developed for people with stroke in the world, only two are aimed at the function of the lower limbs and none of the applications have the Constraint-Induced Movement Therapy (CIMT) protocol as a technical and scientific basis for their development. Considering that CIMT is the intervention with the highest level of evidence for behavior change in Physiotherapy, the TCI mobile application was developed with the objective of optimizing and expanding the application of CIMT in the world. Thus, considering the scarcity of applications developed and available with this approach, the need to expand international access to this resource and the lack of knowledge about the effect of adding this resource to the activity and mobility of people who have had a stroke, this project proposes the validation and evaluation of the usability of the TCI mobile, translation into English and the evaluation of the effects of the association of the use of this technological resource with the CIMT protocol. (AU)