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Brain Injury Coping Skills - Telemedicine: Phase II (BICS-T-2)

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Devan Parrott

Status

Completed

Conditions

Traumatic Brain Injury
Coping Skills
Caregivers

Treatments

Behavioral: Brain Injur Coping Skills - Telemedicine

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT04386655
1902473107

Details and patient eligibility

About

For phase II, the objective is to compare the effectiveness of BICS-T with the well-established BICS in-person group. Information gained from phase I (the feasibility study) was used to make necessary changes to the BICS-T protocol.

The purpose of this study is to provide survivors of brain injury and caregivers greater support and teach adaptive coping strategies, through a designed and studied a coping skills group specifically for brain injury survivors and their caregivers at the Rehabilitation Hospital of Indiana (RHI) called the Brain Injury Coping Skills group (BICS).

Full description

Brain injury can be devastating for both patients and family members and can result in chronic difficulties in vocational, social, financial, as well as physical functioning. The occurrence of emotional and neurobehavioral challenges in individuals with brain injury is also common with research consistently showing links between these challenges and a person's overall rehabilitation outcome. Additionally, family functioning and caregiver well-being has been shown to influence rehabilitation outcome for a survivor after brain injury. In fact, individuals with families and caregivers who receive support and services, as well as learn adaptive coping strategies, are less likely to exhibit these marked levels of psychological distress.

In order to provide patients and caregivers greater support and teach adaptive coping strategies, the authors of this grant designed and studied a coping skills group specifically for brain injury survivors and their caregivers at the Rehabilitation Hospital of Indiana (RHI) called the Brain Injury Coping Skills group (BICS). BICS is a 12 session (one session per week), manualized, cognitive-behavioral treatment group designed to provide support, coping skills, and psychoeducation aimed to improve perceived self-efficacy (PSE) and emotional functioning. Perceived self-efficacy is the belief or confidence in one's ability to deal with the challenges related to a specific situation (e.g., brain injury). PSE has been found to be strongly linked to social participation, increased positive regard toward the caregiving role, and was found to be the greatest contributing factor to predicting life satisfaction. Cicerone and Azulay found that the greatest contribution to predicting life satisfaction was the person's PSE for managing their cognitive challenges.

Telemedicine is one possible option for rural patients. With increases in the availability of internet and electronic communication, patients now have immediate access to experts and treatment providers who specialize in brain injury. In fact, results from a needs assessment from Ricker and colleagues in 2002 identified telemedicine as a desired need of the brain injury community. To date, several studies have used telemedicine as an avenue to address brain injury rehabilitation for rural patients and caregivers.

For phase II, the objective is to compare the effectiveness of BICS-T with the well-established BICS in-person group. Information gained from phase I (the feasibility study) was used to make necessary changes to the BICS-T protocol.

Enrollment

49 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18+ years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  • Participants enrolled in the study will be (1) persons with a history of brain injury (e.g., Traumatic Brain Injury; TBI) or acquired BI (e.g., stroke, hypoxia, ruptured aneurysm, or metabolic encephalopathy) OR a caregiver of a brain injury survivor; (2) 18 years of age and older; and (3) at least six months post-injury. Since there is no reason to believe that treatment effectiveness varies with chronicity, no maximum has been set for time post-injury.

Exclusion criteria

  • Participants will not be included in the study if they present with the following: (1) at imminent risk of psychiatric breakdown, or in imminent danger of hurting themselves or others; (2) active psychosis; (3) aphasia that limits group participation; or (4) significant neurobehavioral difficulties that would be deemed disruptive to group participation.

Trial design

Primary purpose

Treatment

Allocation

Randomized

Interventional model

Parallel Assignment

Masking

None (Open label)

49 participants in 2 patient groups

Telemedicine Group
Experimental group
Description:
BICS-T is the intervention that will take place over telemedicine software on the iPad provided to participants
Treatment:
Behavioral: Brain Injur Coping Skills - Telemedicine
In-Person Group
Active Comparator group
Description:
Participants a part of the in-person BICS group will then come to the NRC for the following BICS sessions. This group is the traditional, in-person, BICS group
Treatment:
Behavioral: Brain Injur Coping Skills - Telemedicine

Trial contacts and locations

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