sing cognitive-behavioral therapy to manage tiredness after a brain injury

Not Applicable

Completed

Conditions: Management of fatigue after acquired brain injury
Nervous System Diseases

Registration Number: ISRCTN18810622

Lead Sponsor: niversity of Southampton

Brief Summary: Not available

Detailed Description: Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status: Completed

Sex: All

Target Recruitment: 4

Inclusion Criteria

1. An adult
2. Have an acquired brain injury
3. Experience fatigue
4. Have not experienced CBT before
5. Don’t have any significant problems with communication or thinking skills

Exclusion Criteria

1. Not able to engage with talking therapies
2. Had CBT in the past
3. Do not have a brain injury
4. Participants are involved with other psychological therapies

Study & Design

Study Type: Interventional

Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
1. Fatigue will be measured by completing daily fatigue ratings (Salman et al., 2013). Participants will be asked to use a visual analogue scale (from 0 meaning not tired to 10 meaning extremely tired) on a daily basis throughout the intervention. <br>2. Fatigue will be measured using the Modified Fatigue Impact Scale (MFIS), (Ghajarzadeh et al., 2012) at all baseline assessments (4 in total).<br>3. Fatigue will be measured using the Visual Analogue Scale to Evaluate Fatigue Severity (VAS-F), (Shahid et al., 2011) at all baseline assessments (4 in total).

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
1. Overall health will be measured with the SF-36 questionnaire, (Lins & Carvalho, 2016) at all baseline assessments (4 in total).<br>2. Depression will be measured with the Patient Health Questionnaire-9, (Sun et al., 2019) at all baseline assessments (4 in total).<br>3. Anxiety will be measured with the General Anxiety Disorder-7 (GAD-7; Spitzer et al., 2006) at all baseline assessments (4 in total).<br>4. Therapeutic alliance will be measured with the Working Alliance Inventory, (Tatman & Love, 2010) in three baseline assessments (3 in total, not in the very first baseline assessment).