Evaluation of an Intervention Model for Family Crisis and Support

Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Brain Injury, Chronic; Traumatic Brain Injury

Treatments: Behavioral: Brain Injury Family Intervention (BIFI)

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other; Other U.S. Federal agency

Identifiers

NCT00205530

H133A02051604

H133A020516

H133A070036 (Other Grant/Funding Number)

Details and patient eligibility

About

To learn more about how a family treatment program helps people after brain injury. Specifically, do families feel better and function better after going through the program, and do patients feel better and function better after going through the program.

Full description

To evaluate the efficacy of a structured outpatient family intervention program (BIFI) on family members' emotional well being, life satisfaction, needs, and family functioning; and to evaluate the impact of the BIFI on the emotional well being, life satisfaction, functional independence, vocational status, and neurobehavioral functioning of persons with acquired brain injury (ABI).

Enrollment: 160 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Family members/caregiver friends and persons with acquired brain injury (ABI) who are at least three months postinjury. ABI is defined as damage to brain tissue caused by stroke, aneurysm, anoxia, or an external mechanical force as evidenced by: loss of consciousness, post traumatic amnesia (PTA), objective neurological findings, or skull fracture.

Exclusion criteria

• Families including individuals at imminent risk of psychiatric hospitalization, or in imminent danger of hurting themselves or others, as judged by the investigators.
• Individuals under 18 years of age.