Managing Fatigue and Sleep Disturbance Following Traumatic Brain Injury
- Conditions
- Fatigue and Sleep Disturbance in Traumatic Brain InjuryInjuries and Accidents - Other injuries and accidents
- Registration Number
- ACTRN12608000323325
- Lead Sponsor
- Professor Jennie Ponsford
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Recruiting
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 75
Participants will have sustained a mild, moderate or severe traumatic brian injury; they will be between 17 and 60 years of age and have adequate English skills, cognitive ability, visual acuity and physical ability to complete the questionnaires and therapy tasks
Participants will also include non-injured healthy controls.
They will have no history of previous head injury, neurological disorder, pre-injury sleep disorder or chronic fatigue syndrome, which has required treatment. Those with pre-injury psychiatric disorders or substance abuse requiring hospitalisation will also be exlcuded. They will be excluded if they need to undergo any surgery during the period of the study. They will have no obesity based on body mass index, have had no transmeridian travel across more than one time zone in the preceding 3 months, no nightshift work in the preceding 3 months, no current use of psychotropic medication and no illicit drug use. Participants will be exlcuded if they have experienced epileptic seizures following injury or are tkaing medication known to have a significant effect upon sleep or cause fatigue, such as benzodiazepines
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
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- Secondary Outcome Measures
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