This study aims to investigate the effects of a virtual reality-based cognitive-physical sequential dual task on cognitive and physical functions in community-based disabled persons with chronic stroke.
This study conducted virtual reality-based dual-task training on 17 disabled persons with chronic stroke aged 50 or older living in the community, twice a week for 6 weeks, for a total of 12 sessions. The training program consisted of 20 minutes of cognitive training and 20 minutes of physical training, for a total of 40 minutes. In addition, cognitive function of K-MoCA and CoSAS, SFT were assessed before and after training, and a paired t-test was performed to compare the results.
The results of this study showed that when applying a virtual reality-based sequential dual task to disabled persons with chronic stroke, the K-MoCA total score and sub-items, abstraction and short-term memory, showed statistically significant results (p.05). In addition, the CoSAS total score and sub-items, accuracy, endurance, concentration, and flexibility items of the SFT showed statistically significant results (p.05).
The results of this study showed significant improvements in cognitive function and flexibility of SFT, but showed a tendency to improve in most cognitive and physical functions. Therefore, it is thought that the application of long-term virtual reality-based dual-task training to disabled person with chronic stroke will help improve their daily life activities in the community.
Considering that the subjects are chronic and elderly, it is thought that it is necessary to further analyze the effects through long-term intervention studies. In addition, since the number of subjects was small and it was difficult to generalize the research results, it is thought that it is necessary to set a control group and expand the subjects to verify the effects.
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