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An Online Self-management Program for Spinal Cord Injury: Feasibility Study of SCI&U

NCT04474171 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 63

Last updated 2024-12-06

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Summary

Managing a spinal cord injury (SCI) is a life-long process. Within the first year of injury, more than 50% of people discharged with a SCI may require re-hospitalization due to a secondary complication, such as a urinary tract infection, pressure ulcer or pneumonia. Even 20 years post-injury, re-hospitalization rates remain over 30%. While re-hospitalization rates in Canada have remained high for more than 10 years, the length of stay in inpatient rehabilitation has decreased dramatically, thereby limiting the time for provision of health information and skill acquisition in the inpatient rehabilitation setting. There is growing evidence from two recent pilot trials to suggest that self-management programs that provide appropriate health information, skills and telephone-based support for community-dwelling patients with SCI improves health behaviors and leads to reductions in re-hospitalization.

Goals/Research Aim: To conduct a pilot RCT (feasibility study) that will inform the design of a definitive RCT to determine whether an online self-management program incorporating trained peer health coaches (called "SCI\&U") compared to usual care will result in improved self-management skills (short-term outcome) and lead to reduced days of hospitalization (long-term outcome) due to secondary complications.This pilot study is a two-group RCT with an embedded qualitative component. The target population is adults with SCI who have been discharged from inpatient rehabilitation and living in the community. Sixty subjects will be recruited from across Canada with a focus on British Columbia and Ontario and randomly assigned to the SCI\&U intervention or usual care.

Evaluations will occur at baseline, 2, 6, and 12 months.

Conditions

  • Spinal Cord Injuries

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

SCI&U online health coaching program

Online secure videoconferencing health coaching platform with resource library to promote self-management. Maximum number of sessions is 14 over 6 months and covers health related topics to reduce secondary complications

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)

    collaborator OTHER_GOV

  • University of Toronto

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Susan B Jaglal, PhD · Professor

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2019-10-16
Primary Completion
2022-04-21
Completion
2022-06-20

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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