Enhancing rehabilitation services and quality of life for Aboriginal Australians after brain injury: Healing Right Way

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: brain injury; Physical Medicine / Rehabilitation - Other physical medicine / rehabilitation; Neurological - Other neurological disorders; Injuries and Accidents - Other injuries and accidents; Stroke - Haemorrhagic; Stroke - Ischaemic

• Registration Number: ACTRN12618000139279
• Lead Sponsor: Edith Cowan University

Brief Summary

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Detailed Description

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Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2018-01-30
• Study Completion: 2022-01-31
• Last Update Posted: 28 February 2022

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 108

Inclusion Criteria

•Identification as Aboriginal (from medical file or through self-identification via personal communication with staff)
•18 years or older
•Acute ischaemic or haemorrhagic stroke defined as an acute episode of focal dysfunction of the brain lasting longer than 24 hours, or of any duration if imaging (CT or MRI) shows focal infarction or haemorrhage relevant to the symptoms”
•Acute traumatic brain injury defined as 1) a head trauma severe enough to cause traumatic brain injury and causing neurological symptoms (including headache and nausea) lasting at least 1 week and 2) at least one of the following: loss of consciousness for at least 1 minute, posttraumatic amnesia for at least 30 minutes, neurological symptoms (excluding headache and nausea) during the first 3 days after the injury, or neuroradiological findings suggesting traumatic brain injury (e.g., skull fracture, intracerebral haemorrhage)
•Neurological deficit present as reflected in NIHSS34 > 0
•Able to benefit from rehabilitation as determined by the medical and allied health team within the first four weeks post injury.

Exclusion Criteria

•TIA (defined as focal dysfunction of less than 24 hours duration and with no imaging evidence of infarction” )
•Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS)35 severity score <8
•Concurrent progressive neurological disorder(s)
•Pre-existing clinical diagnosis of dementia with patient fulfilling ICD 10 criteria for dementia
•Documented pre-existing psychosis
•For palliative care and not likely to survive to primary endpoint i.e. 26 weeks
•Participation in other intervention trial

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified