NCT06990646Not yet recruiting
VR-ACT After Stroke: a Feasibility Study
VR-ACT After Stroke: a Feasibility RCT of a Virtual Reality Delivery of ACT for Pain Management and Mental Health in Patients With Chronic Post-Stroke Pain
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 25 May 2025 · Not updated for over 12 months - ask the site whether it is still open
Brief summary (registry, in English)
This exploratory project aims to develop and pilot test, in a parallel group randomized controlled trial (RCT) design, the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary efficacy of a self-management virtual reality (VR) 8-week program for pain management and mental health in patients with chronic post-stroke pain (CPSP), in two assessment moments (pre- to post-intervention).
- Status (registry)
- Not yet recruiting
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 30 (estimated)
- First submitted
- 9 May 2025
- Start date
- Nov 2025
- Primary completion date
- Mar 2026
- Lead sponsor
- University of Coimbra
- Diseases
- Stroke
- NCT number
- NCT06990646
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Planned participants: 30
- From Nov 2025 to the primary completion date, Mar 2026
- No sites listed in no country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Who cannot take part
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Prior treatment
- history of photosensitive epilepsy or previous experience of severe simulator sickness;
Other illness
- currently with active malignancy; -
- severe cognitive impairment;
- current severe psychiatric symptoms (i.e., psychosis; severe depression; non-suicidal self-injury; suicide attempt in the last month);
- language impairment with severe comprehension deficit;
- other neurological conditions (e.g., dementia; Parkinson´s).
Other
- currently undergoing any psychological intervention or VR-delivered pain management program;
Who the study is looking for
- medical diagnosis of CPSP;
- age between 18 and 80;
- implicit de facto internet and computer literacy;
- willingness to comply with the study procedures.
Age in the registry: 18 years to 80 years · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
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