Tests a digital tool guiding rehabilitation for people recovering from stroke
Tests a digital tool guiding tailored rehabilitation in adults after stroke.
Plain-language title generated from the registry record
Registry title: Rehabkompassen® - a Patient-centered Digital Follow-up Tool in the Post-stroke Continuum of Care
Key facts
- Where
- Umeå, SwedenSee the site
Where in Sweden
- Umeå University HospitalUmeå, SwedenTaking people
Questions to ask the study team
- How often do I need to come in, and for how long each time?
- Are travel costs paid?
- Can I keep my own doctor?
- What happens if I want to stop?
Trial details
- Who runs it
- Umeå University
- Trial code
- NCT04915027
- Record updated
- 9 July 2025
- Original description
Stroke is a leading cause of disability and with a heavy burden for the society. Despite the demands from 'Socialstyrelsen' of improving post-acute care, an effective structured follow-up to promote a patient-tailored rehabilitation remains largely lacking in the current stroke care.Read full original descriptionShow less
Rehabkompassen® - a Novel Digital Tool for Facilitating Patient-tailored Rehabilitation in the Post-acute Continuum of Care After Stroke - A Multicenter Pragmatic Randomized Controlled Trial
Stroke is a leading cause of disability and with a heavy burden for the society. Despite the demands from 'Socialstyrelsen' of improving post-acute care, an effective structured follow-up to promote a patient-tailored rehabilitation remains largely lacking in the current stroke care.
The overall aim of this study is to find a cost-effective solution to facilitate patient-tailored rehabilitation that improves daily and social activities and health-related quality of life for persons discharged from the acute care after stroke. We have recently developed a novel digital graphic tool, Rehabkompassen®, which based on patient-reported outcome measurements captures the patient's complex health status after stroke.
Here, this tool will be used in a parallel, open-label, 2-arm prospective and multicenter pragmatic randomized controlled trial between 2022-2026. All participants (n = 1106) will be randomized according to permuted block design; and receive a usual care without (control group, n = 553) or with (intervention group, n = 553) Rehabkompassen®, within 3-month after stroke. The effectiveness of the tool on daily and social activities, quality of life and its health-economic effects will be compared at 12-month follow-up post stroke.
We hypothesize that the digital tool Rehabkompassen® will provide a patient-tailored rehabilitation that improves recovery, independence, and quality of life among people with stroke in a cost-effective way.
Inclusion: Adults aged 18 years or older; With a stroke diagnosis; Time since stroke onset:; 3a) For the big RCT group, Individuals must be within the first 4 months after stroke, starting from Day 1 after the occurrence of the stroke; 3b) For primary care group, Individuals 3 months after stroke.
Exclusion: Unable to answer the evaluation questions; Unable to see the Rehabkompassen®graph; Not using BankID, an e-identification tool commonly used in Sweden.