Supporting Patient Decisions About UE Surgery in Cervical SCI

NCT03464409 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 46

Last updated 2021-11-03

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The goal of this study is to collect and describe patient and caregiver reported outcomes regarding surgical and non-surgical treatment for improving hand and arm function in the setting of cervical spinal cord injury. Eligible study participants will be recruited across the 4 sites and the investigators plan to recruit the following groups and numbers of participants:

1. Nerve or tendon transfer recipients: people who have elected to undergo nerve (N=10) or tendon (N=10) transfer surgery to restore some hand and arm function as part of their standard clinical care and their caregiver (N=20)
2. Non-surgical control group: people with cervical SCI (N=20) and their caregiver (N=20)

Conditions

  • Cervical Spinal Cord Injury

Interventions

OTHER

Semi-structured interview

Semi-structured interviews to be conducted by a study team member.

OTHER

Spinal Cord Independence Measure (SCIM-SR)

The Spinal Cord Independence Measure - Self Report (SCIM-SR) is a self-report instrument for assessing functional independence of persons with spinal cord injury.

OTHER

SF-36

A health-related quality of life (QoL) self-reported survey.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • United States Department of Defense

    collaborator FED
  • VA St. Louis Health Care System

    collaborator FED
  • VA Palo Alto Health Care System

    collaborator FED
  • Stanford University

    collaborator OTHER
  • Washington University School of Medicine

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Ida K Fox, MD · Washington University School of Medicine

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
80 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2018-03-13
Primary Completion
2021-08-30
Completion
2021-08-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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