Visual Thinking Strategies, applied as treatment for people with chronic acquired brain injury.

Completed

Conditions: abstract thinking
and selecting relevant sensory information.
cognitive flexibility
executive function deficits
brain processes which are responsible for planning
initiating appropriate actions and inhibiting inappropriate actions
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Registration Number: NL-OMON34357

Lead Sponsor: Revalidatiecentrum Amsterdam

Brief Summary: Not available

Detailed Description: Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status: Completed

Sex: Not specified

Target Recruitment: 14

Inclusion Criteria

acquired brain injury
at least one year post onset
executive function deficits
age 18-65

Exclusion Criteria

serious visual or hearing deficits
serious cognitive (eg. attention deficit) or behavioural deficits interfering with groupparticipation
speaking and understanding Dutch insufficiently
other cognitive rehabilitation at the same time as the intervention

Study & Design

Study Type: Interventional

Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
<p>Both in describing a painting (Aesthetic Development Interview, ADI) and in<br /><br>describing an unknown object (Material Object Interview, MOI): the number of<br /><br>different observations, the number of times that there are different<br /><br>observations (interpretations) about the same thing, the number of times that<br /><br>an observation is corrected, the number of observations that are based by the<br /><br>patient on evidence from the painting. </p><br>

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
<p>finding different solutions (Wordfluency and Design fluency) and critical<br /><br>thinking and reasoning logically (WAIS-III picture sequencing and<br /><br>Comprehension) and a questionnaire for social communicative skills (filled in<br /><br>by both he patient and a proxy). </p><br>