Online conversation skills training after brain injury: An effectiveness-implementation study of convers-ABI-lity”

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI); Stroke; Neurological - Other neurological disorders; Stroke - Haemorrhagic; Stroke - Ischaemic; Physical Medicine / Rehabilitation - Speech therapy

• Registration Number: ACTRN12621001180808
• Lead Sponsor: Melissa Miao

Brief Summary

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Detailed Description

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Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2021-09-02
• Study Completion: 2022-07-24
• Last Update Posted: 15 August 2022

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 26

Inclusion Criteria

Participants with acquired brain injury (ABI) must:
1.Have a definite moderate-severe ABI at least six months previously based on the Mayo classification scheme (at least one of the following: loss of consciousness of 30 minutes or more, post-traumatic amnesia of 24 hours of more, worst Glasgow Coma Scale total score in the first 24 hours < 13, or evidence of a significant brain imaging abnormality). People with a non-traumatic brain injury (restricted specifically to the aetiologies of stroke, hypoxic injury, brain tumour, poisoning, infection) will also be eligible to participate
2.Be discharged or partially discharged from hospital, and able to spend time at home on a regular basis
3.Have significant social communication skills deficits (either self-identified or identified by a usual communication partner)
4.Have insight into their social communication skills deficits
5.Be aged between 18 and 70 years
6.Have adequate English proficiency for completing assessment tasks without the aid of an interpreter
7.Functional reading skills in English
8.Have a communication partner with whom they interact regularly who is willing to participate in co-design sessions and/or the training program

Family members or friends or paid support workers participating in the study must:
1.Regularly interact with a person with ABI (i.e., at least once a week). This person with ABI should be at least six months post-injury.
2.Have known the person with ABI for at least three months
3.Have not sustained a severe ABI
4.Be aged 18 years or over

Speech-language pathologists participating in the study must:
1.Be currently employed in a clinical speech-language pathology role
2.with people with ABI forming at least 20% of the caseload

Exclusion Criteria

Exclusion criteria for participants with ABI are:
1.Aphasia of a severity which prevents any participation in conversation
2.Severe amnesia which would prevent participants from providing informed consent, as evaluated using the UBACC (University of California, San Diego Brief Assessment of Capacity to Consent; D. V. Jeste et al., A new brief instrument for assessing decisional capacity for clinical research,” Arch Gen Psychiatry, vol. 64, no. 8, pp. 966–974, Aug. 2007, doi: 10.1001/archpsyc.64.8.966).
3.Dysarthria of a severity which significantly reduces intelligibility during conversation, as evaluated by the researcher
4.Drug or alcohol addiction which would prevent participants from reliably participating in sessions
5.Active psychosis
6.Co-occurring degenerative neurological disorder, more than one episode of moderate-severe brain injury or premorbid intellectual disability.

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified