HOme-Based Self-management and COgnitive Training CHanges Lives (HOBSCOTCH) - Multiple Sclerosis (MS) (HOBSCOTCH-MS)

Dartmouth Health

Status: Active, not recruiting

Conditions: Memory Disorders; Multiple Sclerosis; Cognitive Dysfunction

Treatments: Behavioral: HOme-Based Self-management and COgnitive Training CHanges lives (HOBSCOTCH)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06145737

STUDY02002107

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this pilot study is to assess the feasibility of adapting and delivering the existing home-based epilepsy self-management intervention, HOBSCOTCH, for people with multiple sclerosis (MS).

The main questions it aims to answer are:

1. Can the current HOBSCOTCH program be adapted for people with MS?
2. Will people with MS experience improved quality of life similar to that found in people with epilepsy after participating in the HOBSCOTCH program?

Participants will be asked to:

• attend nine, one-hour virtual (online and/or by telephone) HOBSCOTCH-MS sessions with a one-on-one certified HOBSCOTCH-MS coach
• complete a brief clinical questionnaire about their diagnosis of MS
• complete four questionnaires before and after the HOBSCOTCH-MS sessions about their quality of life and about memory and thinking processes
• keep a short daily diary about their MS symptoms and use of the self-management strategies taught in the HOBSCOTCH-MS program
• complete a brief Satisfaction Survey after the entire HOBSCOTCH-MS program

Enrollment: 11 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age 20 - 65 years
• Literate, English-speaking with grade 12 or equivalent in education
• Self-reported diagnosis of MS
• Self-reported cognitive/memory difficulties
• Telephone and internet access

Exclusion criteria

• Cognitive dysfunction that precludes participation in giving informed consent
• Significant visual impairment precluding reading or writing
• No reliable telephone or internet access
• Acute psychiatric illness
• History of progressive neurodegenerative disease (dementia)

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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11 participants in 1 patient group

MS Participant with Cognitive Dysfunction

Other group

Description:

Participants will receive the HOBSCOTCH-MS intervention consisting of 1:1 sessions delivered once per week including: * 1 pre-HOBSCOTCH Session (on webcam or by phone) * 1 educational session (on webcam) * 6 HOBSCOTCH intervention sessions (webcam or phone) * 1 wrap-up session (webcam or phone)

Treatment:

Behavioral: HOme-Based Self-management and COgnitive Training CHanges lives (HOBSCOTCH)