A new T-Thuis Telerehabilitation Care Service for patients with a stroke is offered to residents of Cameron County in the Rio Grande Valley as part of a randomized clinical study led by researchers from the Uthalth Houston.
Researchers from Uthealth Houston School of Public Health in Brownsville, Uthealth Houston Institute for Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases, and McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics to Uthealth Houston will make and test software to patients who have recently had a stroke.
The most important point is that the Rio Grande Valley is a disadvantaged community and many people are uninsured. It is difficult for them to go to rehabilitation after a stroke. If they do not receive rehabilitation, it is a major burden. “
Fadi Musfee, MD, PhD, MPH, lead researcher of the process and university teacher Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Uthealth Houston
Employees of the multidisciplinary team include Belinda Reininger, DRPH, MPH, professor of health promotion and behavioral sciences and regional dean of the School of Public Health in Brownsville; Sean Savitz, MD, professor in the Neurology department and Frank M. Yatsu, MD, chairman in Neurology at the McGovern Medical School in Uthalth Houston; Xiaoqian Jiang, PhD, chairman of the Department of Health Data Science and Artificial Intelligence and Christopher Sarofim Family Professor in Biomedical Informatics and Bioginating to McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics; and Emily Stevens, DRPH, MOT, occupational therapist and research coordinator at the Uthealth Houston Institute for Stroke and Cerebrovascular diseases. Musfee, Reininger and Jiang are members of the Stroke Institute and Savitz is the director.
The survivors of the Battle will be randomized, with half of the graceful habilitation program and half that serves as checks. The software program, called Mobile Rehab and developed by Jiang, enables participants to strengthen personalized rehabilitation that reinforces videoGimes on the basis of driven motor skills and activities of daily shortages by respondents. The intervention will take three months. They will also receive home visits in the community to check the progress, offer training and to solve problems. The control group receives a list of resources for social services, including mental health, as part of the usual care.
Researchers estimate the functional health, mental health and) identify barriers to and facilitators of accepting and delivering the new rehabilitation model.
The nine-month study will register 30 participants-15 in each arm between the ages of 18-80 who have been fired and uninsured from Valley Baptist Medical Center last month. Persons with psychiatric disorders, dementia or baseline front rack motor shortages will be excluded.
Financing is from the Uthealth Houston Center for Clinical and Translational Sciences.