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Motivation and Self-awareness in Acquired Brain Injury (ABI)

NCT02913755 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 11

Last updated 2017-10-27

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Summary

Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) is damage to the brain caused by a head injury or illness/disease such as stroke or aneurysm. ABI is often associated with poor awareness into ongoing symptoms of damage to the brain, which can be cognitive, physical, and psychological. A multi-disciplinary rehabilitation programme is recommended to help with such symptoms. However, without self-awareness of difficulties, people with ABI can have poor motivation to take part. The study aims to discover whether showing people a short 'preparatory' video about ABI rehabilitation has an effect on self-awareness, and their motivation to take part in rehabilitation offered to them.

The study also aims to investigate the feasibility of using the preparatory video on a larger scale across inpatient ABI rehabilitation, by exploring whether staff find delivering the video easy to incorporate into routine practice.

People invited to take part in the study will be recruited from a specialist inpatient brain injury rehabilitation unit (BIRT).

People who are approached will be given information about what the study will involve, and can choose not to take part.

Each participant will be asked to fill out a series of questionnaires. They will then be supported by staff to watch a short video every two/three days, over four weeks. Half of the participants will be shown the video right away, while the other half will wait two weeks, to allow for comparisons between the groups. The video will aim to improve understanding of the kinds of emotional and/or practical difficulties they may be experiencing, and will inform participants about what rehabilitation might be like. After they have regularly watched the video for four weeks both sets of participants will be asked to complete another set of questionnaires, and the staff will be asked to complete an evaluation of how they found delivering the video.

Conditions

  • Brain Injury

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Preparatory video

5 minute Preparatory video to increase motivation, awareness and engagement in ABI rehabilitation

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Brain Injury Rehabilitation Trust

    collaborator OTHER

  • University of Glasgow

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Hamish McLeod · University of Glasgow

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2017-04-07
Primary Completion
2017-09-30
Completion
2017-09-30

Countries

  • United Kingdom

Study Locations

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