Can a phone app help stroke patients recover? new trial aims to find out

NCT ID NCT07511868

Not yet recruiting Disease control Sponsor: VASCage GmbH Source: ClinicalTrials.gov ↗

First seen Jun 26, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026 · Updated 1 time

Summary

This study tests a smartphone app called StrokeApp designed to support people after a stroke or mini-stroke. The app provides educational content, medication reminders, and tools to track health. Researchers will compare quality of life and other health measures between 500 patients who use the app plus standard care versus those who receive standard care alone.

What this could mean

Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only — not medical advice or a prediction.

Active substance: StrokeApp (smartphone/tablet-based medical application)
What this could lead to: If it works, this could provide an effective, low-cost digital tool to help stroke survivors improve their quality of life and better manage their health after leaving the hospital.
What could go wrong: This is a relatively early-stage trial testing a behavioral intervention, not a drug. The app's benefits may be small or not last long, and results depend on patients actually using it consistently.

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Conditions

The condition(s) this trial relates to.

Alzheimer disease hemorrhagic stroke ischemic stroke transient ischemic attack

As listed by the trial registrant

The condition terms exactly as the trial's registrant entered them.

HAEMORRHAGIC STROKE ISCHAEMIC STROKE TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK (TIA)

Contacts and locations

Locations

Johannes Kepler University Linz, University Hospital for Neurology

Linz, Upper Austria, 4021, Austria
Medical University of Graz, Clinical Department of General Neurology

Graz, Styria, 8010, Austria
Medical University of Innsbruck, Department of Neurology

Innsbruck, Tyrol, 6020, Austria
Pyhrn-Eisenwurzen Klinikum, Department of Neurology

Steyr, Upper Austria, 4400, Austria
Salzkammergut Klinikum Vöcklabruck, Department of Neurology

Vöcklabruck, Upper Austria, 4840, Austria
St. John's Hospital, Vienna Department of Neurology

Vienna, State of Vienna, 1020, Austria
University Hospital Tulln, Clinical Department of Neurology

Tulln, Lower Austria, 3430, Austria

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