Emotional Processing Intervention for Children With TBI

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Traumatic Brain Injury
• Interventions: Behavioral: Emotional Processing

• Registration Number: NCT04826068
• Lead Sponsor: Kessler Foundation

Brief Summary

Investigating an emotional processing program, that is modified for use with children, is effective for children with a traumatic brain injury (TBI).

Detailed Description

The first stage of this project will evaluate the appropriateness of an emotional processing intervention modified for a pediatric population. The researchers will modify the intervention prior to the evaluation by the 15 typically developing children.

The second stage of the project will evaluate the effectiveness of an emotional processing intervention to improve performance on tests of emotional processing in individuals with TBI. Emotional processing includes both facial affect recognition and social perception measures.

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2021-03-29
• Study First Submitted QC: 2021-03-29
• Study Start: 2021-04-01
• Study First Posted: 2021-04-01
• Primary Completion: 2023-05-31
• Study Completion: 2023-05-31
• Status Verified: 2023-10
• Last Update Submitted: 2023-10-05
• Last Update Posted: 2023-10-06

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 10

Inclusion Criteria

Ages of 9 and 17. Speak and read English fluently.

Healthy Volunteer or

Have sustained a TBI at least 1 year ago, that has affected his or her ability to process emotions.

Exclusion Criteria

Previous stroke, MS, or neurological injury or disease in the past (like brain tumor or epilepsy) other than TBI.

History of significant psychiatric illness (like bipolar disorder, schizophrenia or psychosis).

Uncontrolled seizures or other unstable medical complications.

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Emotional Processing	Emotional Processing	The intervention looks at emotional processing of face interpretation.
Control intervention	Emotional Processing	The control group is seeing the same faces and are asked questions regarding them.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Facial Identification Task	8 weeks	measure of facial affect recognition

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Kessler Foundation; 🇺🇸 West Orange, New Jersey, United States