MMEPT for Traumatic Brain Injury

NYU Langone Health

Status: Completed

Conditions: Traumatic Brain Injury

Treatments: Behavioral: Multimedia Multicultural Educational Program for TBI (MMEPT); Behavioral: RRTBIMS

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02695043

15-00356

Details and patient eligibility

About

The primary purpose of this research is to increase adherence to outpatient rehabilitation of chronically underserved individuals with traumatic brain injury (TBI). The intervention will be a TBI rehabilitation-focused education tool suitable for use with a wide variety of patients, including those with poor literacy skills and those with Limited English Proficiency (LEP), hereafter referred to as the Multimedia Multicultural Educational Program for TBI (MMEPT).

Enrollment: 25 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• A medically documented (e.g., EMS report, hospital record, physician record) TBI as a result of a blow to the head requiring admission to an acute inpatient rehabilitation unit, meeting at least one of the following criteria for moderate to severe TBI:

  1. PTA > 24 hours
  2. Trauma related intracranial neuroimaging abnormalities
  3. Loss of consciousness exceeding 30 minutes
  4. GCS in emergency department of less than 13 (unless due to intubation, sedation or intoxication)

• Proficient in Chinese (Mandarin or Cantonese), Spanish or English,

• Willing to engage in the MMEPT and complete questionnaires,

• Agreeing to participate (i.e., completion of informed consent and HIPAA documents).

Exclusion criteria

• Preferred language (language with greatest proficiency) other than English, Chinese or Spanish,
• In minimally conscious or vegetative state,
• Significant symptoms of receptive aphasia, and
• Any acute medical condition that, in the investigator's opinion, makes the person unsuitable or unable to participate. Participants enrolled in the study who are ultimately not discharged to the community at the completion of acute inpatient rehabilitation will be removed from the study.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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25 participants in 2 patient groups

MMPET Group

Experimental group

Description:

This group of subjects will be comprised of a subset of culturally diverse patients admitted to the Bellevue the Traumatic Brain Injury Unit at Bellevue. Treatment will focus on improving awareness and comprehension of TBI and its long-term consequences, fostering increased trust in the TBI rehabilitation team, and conveying the importance of continued TBI follow up to maximize recovery.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Multimedia Multicultural Educational Program for TBI (MMEPT)

Control Group

Active Comparator group

Description:

The Control Group will be comprised of equally diverse subset of patients who will receive Standard of Care Treatment.

Treatment:

Behavioral: RRTBIMS