Telephone Intervention After Traumatic Brain Injury

Brain Injuries Clinical Trial

Official title: The Effect of Scheduled Telephone Intervention on Outcomes After Traumatic Brain Injury

Status Completed

Clinical Trial Summary

This study seeks to determine if telephone counseling improves the outcome for persons with moderate to severe traumatic brain injury (TBI).

Clinical Trial Description

Subjects are recruited from the three participating TBI Model Systems of Care at Seattle, Philadelphia, and Jackson. After informed consent is obtained, some information is gathered about the injury and information about how the subject is doing cognitively, socially, and emotionally. After this information is obtained and after the subject is discharged from the acute rehabilitation unit, the subject is randomly selected to receive either standard care after discharge or standard care plus the telephone counseling.

The telephone follow-up group receives a telephone call from a research coordinator in 3-4 days, 2, 4, 8 weeks, and 5, 7, 9, 12, 15, 18, and 21 months after the date of injury. The research coordinator will work with the subject on problem-solving and self-management skills. In addition, the research coordinator will check in with a family member or friend for whom the subject has given permission to speak.

An outcome assessment is done by telephone at 12 months and 24 months after injury. ;

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Single Blind (Outcomes Assessor), Primary Purpose: Treatment

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Brain Injuries

• NCT number: NCT00483522
• Study type: Interventional
• Source: University of Washington
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: December 2004
• Completion date: June 2009