Resolving Grief After Spinal Cord Injury

Spinal Cord Injury Clinical Trial

Official title:

Resolving Grief and Moving On After Spinal Cord Injury

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT01957358
• Other study ID #: GR2013
• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: October 2013
• Est. completion date: June 2020

Study information

• Verified date: April 2019
• Source: University of Manitoba
• Contact: Gail Burnside
• Phone: (204) 786-4753
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The purpose of this study is to examine the usefulness of the Grief Recovery Method in assisting persons with spinal cord injuries to achieve as complete a recovery as possible, thereby allowing for fuller participation in life.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Enrollment: 8
• Est. completion date: June 2020
• Est. primary completion date: December 2019
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: N/A and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Persons with a spinal cord injury who are willing to participate in the program.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Unable or unwilling to participate.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Spinal Cord Injuries
• Spinal Cord Injury
• Wounds and Injuries

Intervention

Behavioral:
• The Grief Recovery Method
The Grief Recovery Method is a structured process designed to help people with spinal cord injuries examine their knowledge of their injury, their emotional reaction to their injury, and their ability to acknowledge their grief over the injury in order to learn techniques to resolve the grief in order to achieve a more complete recovery. Participants will attend a total of 18 sessions, some one-on-one, and some in a group setting. The Grief Recovery Handbook, handouts, DVD (digital video disc) presentations and questionnaires will be used. Targeted activities to decrease isolation and assist volunteers to identify goals for recovery will be utilized.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Canada	WRHA Health Sciences Centre Rehabilitation Hospital	Winnipeg	Manitoba

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Dr. Karen Ethans

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Canada, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Impact of Event Scale	A self-administered questionnaire with 22 questions designed to measure the subjective response to a specific traumatic event (for this study, the event is the spinal cord injury).	At Sessions 1 and 18. (Baseline and month 4)
Secondary	Modified Grief Inventory	A self-reported 2-part questionnaire that asks the volunteer to circle responses to questions about past behavior and present feelings about their spinal cord injury.	At Sessions 1and 18 (baseline and month 4).
Secondary	The Coping with Health Injuries and Problems	A 32-question self-reported scale that measures coping with illness.	At sessions 1 and 18 (Baseline and month 4)