A Health and Wellness Lifestyle Program to Support Community-Dwelling Persons With Traumatic Brain Injury (POWERS-TBI)

The University of Alabama at Birmingham

Status

Completed

Conditions

Traumatic Brain Injury

Treatments

Behavioral: Telehealth-Based Health and Wellness Program (POWERS-TBI)

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT04288258

90DPTB0015

Details and patient eligibility

About

To evaluate the efficacy of an adapted telehealth-based, health and wellness lifestyle program on promoting healthy lifestyle behaviors and improving health outcomes.

Full description

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of an adapted telehealth-based, health and wellness lifestyle program (POWERS-TBI) on promoting healthy lifestyle behaviors and improving self-efficacy for healthy activities such as amount of physical activity, dietary/food intake, mental stimulation and activity, substance use, mindfulness/spirituality, social relationships, and/or leisure activities among persons with TBI and their caregivers. The treatment program will be delivered via the internet, along with ongoing telephone health coaching calls designed to motivate, problem-solve challenges, reinforce skills learned, and prevent relapse. The goals are to evaluate the impact of the treatment program on improving health outcomes for people with TBI. The investigators plan to accomplish this by evaluating the impact of the program using a case-control crossover design.

Enrollment

62 patients

Sex

All

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

age 19 years or older
sustained a TBI
at least 6-months or greater out from injury
willing to work on one or more health goals among any of the following areas of focus (e.g., health knowledge, physical activity/exercise, dietary intake/nutrition, stress management, mental activity/stimulation, social ' relationships, leisure, sleep, mindfulness/spirituality, substance use)
able to potentially participate in physical activity or alter dietary intake, if that is a potential health goal (e.g., no medical contraindication given by their doctor)
not currently enrolled in a health and wellness program or research study involving a health/wellness program or intervention
indicates a potential health goal to lose weight and does not independently prepare their own meals, cook, grocery shop, but has a caregiver defined by providing some type of ongoing support (emotional or instrumental) who is willing to participate as a study partner during the intervention condition
has access to a telephone
has regular access to the internet from a computer or laptop
not pregnant (due to the effect on engaging in certain health promoting behaviors such as weight loss)
does not have a significant psychiatric disorder, such as schizophrenia or bipolar disorder (those with depression or anxiety will not be excluded)