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A Brief Educational Intervention to Improve Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Screening Outcomes

NCT01558791 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE1 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 1236

Last updated 2019-03-25

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Summary

This research study is designed to learn about Veterans' understanding of mild TBI (traumatic brain injury) and the VA TBI screening process. All OEF/OIF Veterans who come to one of the study-related clinics for TBI screening will be invited to participate. An educational handout on TBI will be given to half of the participants along with their TBI screening. The other half of the participants will have the usual TBI screening without the educational handout.

Veterans enrolled in the study will be asked to answer a 5-10 minute research questionnaire. The questionnaire will ask:

* About the individual: such as gender and branch of service
* About what happened during the TBI screening: such as whether the Veteran had a chance to ask the provider any questions
* About the Veteran's understanding of mild TBI: such as whether symptoms of mild TBI are long lasting

Veterans who receive the educational handout will be asked specific questions about the handout and its information.

Conditions

  • TBI

Interventions

OTHER

TBI handout

The intervention is an educational handout which covers key concepts found in the empirical literature and explicated in the VA/DoD mTBI practice guideline; (1) the meaning of a positive screen, (2) symptoms may be due to another condition, (3) most people with mTBI recover.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • VA Office of Research and Development

    lead FED

Principal Investigators

  • Jessica L Hamblen, PhD · White River Junction VA Medical Center, White River Junction, VT

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2011-09-30
Primary Completion
2012-09-30
Completion
2013-01-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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