europsychological rehabilitation: Modular cognitive retraining versus compensatory skills training

Completed

• Conditions: Severe head trauma, stroke; Injury, Occupational Diseases, Poisoning; Intracranial injury

• Registration Number: ISRCTN45171788
• Lead Sponsor: Bavarian Network for Rehabilitation Research (Rehabilitationswissenschaftlicher Forschungsverbund Bayern) (Germany)

Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2003-10-27
• Last Update Posted: 13 January 2015

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 0

Inclusion Criteria

1. Neuropsychological impairments in at least two of the cognitive domains (cf. International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health [ICF], World Health Organisation [WHO]): attention, memory, or problem solving
2. Age 16 to 55 years
3. Participation in the therapy programme for 5 weeks
4. Barthel Index at least summary score 40

Exclusion Criteria

1. Prior brain injury to the actual trauma
2. Psychiatric disorder before trauma medically documented
3. Substance abuse
The participants are all inpatients at the neuropsychological rehabilitation centres. They are no longer in emergency units but in therapeutic care for the reintegration in job, family and daily life.

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified