Early Rehabilitation of Patients With Posttraumatic Amnesia

University of Aarhus

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Amnesia

Treatments: Behavioral: Reality Orientation

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00476528

NK8633

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to investigate if a systematic intervention with early identifying of patients with posttraumatic amnesia using a reality orientation therapy can reduce the period with posttraumatic amnesia in order to get a better outcome for patients with traumatic brain injury

Full description

1. A systematic review with the latest investigation and treatment of patients with posttraumatic amnesia
2. Investigate the effect of a systematic nursing programme on the length of posttraumatic amnesia
3. Investigate the effect of a systematic nursing programme after 12 month
4. Describe perspectives for the future within the early rehabilitation of patients with posttraumatic amnesia

Enrollment: 62 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 70 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients should be able to speak and understand danish
• Patients with traumatic brain injury
• A verified brain injury at the CT scanning

Exclusion criteria

• Patients with medical illness
• Patients with other neurological illness
• Patients with neuroinfections meningitic, encephalitic
• Patients who does not understand and speaks danish

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)