Peer Mentoring for Persons With Spinal Cord Injury (SCI)

Spinal Cord Injury Clinical Trial

Official title:

Peer Mentoring for Persons With Spinal Cord Injury: Program Satisfaction and Outcome for Mentor/Mentee

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT00205205
• Other study ID #: M-2003-0505
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: September 13, 2005
• Last updated: October 1, 2015

Study information

• Verified date: June 2008
• Source: University of Wisconsin, Madison
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: United States: Institutional Review Board
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

A peer mentoring program for persons with SCI was developed. Individuals who experienced SCI in the past and have adapted well functionally were asked to serve as mentors for individuals with newly-acquired SCI. These individuals undergo volunteer and peer mentoring training prior to mentoring activities. They are a subset of the study participants. We are tracking their satisfaction with life, positive and negative affect, life adjustment, depression, and social support over time. We hypothesize that measures of adjustment will become more positive as involvement as a mentor increases. The second subset of study participants are the individuals with newly-acquired SCI. They complete a baseline assessment of the measures listed above and then at 6 months, one year, and two years after match with a mentor. We also collect information about the quantity and quality of the mentoring sessions from both the mentor and mentee. We hypothesize that the mentee's adjustment will be positively influenced by the number and quality of the mentoring sessions. Due to the relatively small number of SCI per year in our program, we opted to offer the mentoring program to all individuals with newly acquired SCI, thus there is no control group.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 0
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• experienced a SCI

Exclusion Criteria:

• no severe traumatic brain injury

• no severe psychiatric disturbance

Study Design

Allocation: Non-Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Treatment

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Spinal Cord Injuries
• Spinal Cord Injury

Intervention

Behavioral:
• peer mentoring

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	University of Wisconsin	Madison	Wisconsin

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of Wisconsin, Madison

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

References & Publications (1)

Veith, E.M., Sherman, J.E., Pellino, T.A. Yasui, T.Y. (2006). Qualitative analysis of the peer-mentoring relationship among individuals with spinal cord injury, Rehabilitation Psychology, 51, 289-298.

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	satisfaction with life, positive and negative affect, life adjustment, depression, and social support
Secondary	is the mentee's adjustment positively influenced by the number and quality of the mentoring sessions