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June 27, 2026Topics in Stroke RehabilitationOpen Access

Cognitive strategies for improving activity-level outcomes post stroke: an integrative review

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FTFaye TaboneICIbe CouwelsRSRachel Stockley

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Overview

Integrative review identifies cognitive interventions improving activity outcomes after stroke, suggesting enhanced rehabilitation approaches.

Key Points

  • The review aims to identify effective cognitive strategy interventions that enhance rehabilitation engagement and activity outcomes for individuals with cognitive impairments post-stroke.
  • Conducted comprehensive searches in Embase, CINAHL, Scopus, MEDLINE, and PsycINFO.
  • Followed JBI methodology and the PRISMA-ScR checklist for study selection and data extraction.
  • Quality assessment was performed using the TIDieR checklist and QuADS.
  • 20 randomized controlled trials were included in the review.
  • Cognitive strategies identified were categorized into domain-specific, mental practice, and global approaches, with global strategies showing the most consistency.
  • Primary outcome measures varied widely, with the Functional Independence Measure and Barthel Index being the most frequently reported.

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Tabone et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a3f67e2aea7db3c1953f1cahttps://doi.org/10.1080/10749357.2026.2684949
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