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Spinal Cord Injury Virtual Coach RCT

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Boston University

Status

Completed

Conditions

Spinal Cord Injuries

Treatments

Behavioral: SCI Virtual Coach

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT02876666
324644 (Other Grant/Funding Number)
H-33729

Details and patient eligibility

About

The SCI Virtual Coach study has developed an on-screen, human-like character that will provide support, education and coaching to adults with spinal cord injury (SCI) to aid in the prevention of serious secondary conditions like pressure ulcers. In a randomized controlled trial, participants assigned to "the Coach" intervention will have a touch-screen computer placed in their homes and be asked to interact with the Coach on a daily basis for 2 months. Participants will be asked to complete surveys at baseline and 2 months.

The SCI Virtual Coach study aims to measure how accessible and usable participants feel the Coach is, as well as participants' adherence to the Coach's instructions. It will also gauge how effective the Coach is in changing self-care knowledge, health care behaviors, self-efficacy for self-care, and perception of social support in participants.

Enrollment

40 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18+ years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  • Self-report of physician-confirmed chronic spinal cord injury diagnosis
  • Injured within the last 6 months -10 years
  • Speaks and understands conversational English
  • Lives within approximately 1 hour of Boston, MA

Exclusion criteria

  • Moderate to severe cognitive impairment
  • Expected to live less than 1 year

Trial design

Primary purpose

Supportive Care

Allocation

Randomized

Interventional model

Parallel Assignment

Masking

Double Blind

40 participants in 2 patient groups

Coach Intervention
Experimental group
Treatment:
Behavioral: SCI Virtual Coach
Usual Care
No Intervention group

Trial contacts and locations

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