A Caregiver-Assisted Rehabilitation With Strategy Training (CAR-ST) for Stroke Patients

CAR-ST is a home-based rehabilitation that guides both stroke survivors and their caregivers to implement strategy training for addressing daily activity limitations after stroke. The caregiver, as an active partner, not only supervises the participant but also co-participates in the practice. Caregivers are instructed on when and how to provide assistance during task practice, using physical, verbal, or visual guidance. As the participant's performance improves, the caregiver is empowered to motivate them to exert greater efforts, encouraging higher repetitions, longer durations of the same task, and an increased level of difficulty.

Compared to CAR-ST, ST is a home-based rehabilitation that guides stroke survivors only to implement strategy training for addressing daily activity limitations after stroke.

Stroke-related information and knowledge that includes stroke subtypes and their etiology, risk factors of primary and secondary stroke, healthy lifestyles, common sequala, and adaptive skills for impaired functions are provided.