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Scheduled Telephone Intervention for Individuals With Spinal Cord Injury and Their Families

NCT00693563 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 168

Last updated 2013-01-11

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The purpose of this study is to evaluate whether scheduled telephone intervention with individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI) and their caregivers in the first year following discharge from acute inpatient rehabilitation will reduce rehospitalizations and emergency room visits as well as improve adjustment to SCI.

Conditions

  • Spinal Cord Injury

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Scheduled Telephone Intervention

Participants and their significant others will be contacted by telephone within 24 to 48 hours after discharge and 10 additional times at weeks 1, 2, 4, 6, and months 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, and 10. The frequent early telephone contacts are meant to address early concerns that frequently arise after discharge are expected to last between 30 and 45 minutes. Later phone calls may be brief if no concerns are raised and are expected to address resource needs as well as ongoing questions that arise through the first year after injury. Content of each phone call will be dependent on issues raised by each individual participant and their significant other and/or follow-up on concerns raised in prior phone contacts rather than a specific structured interview.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • U.S. Department of Education

    collaborator FED

  • Jeanne Hoffman

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Charles Bombardier, PhD · University of Washington

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
16 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2007-08-31
Primary Completion
2011-10-31
Completion
2011-10-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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