Do people with traumatic brain injury and their carers receive equal benefit from Skype-based intervention compared to in-person intervention in terms of change in communication skills?

The University of Sydney0 个研究点目标入组 36 人开始时间: 2015年10月1日最近更新: 2020年1月13日

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•Participants with TBI must:
•(1)Have a moderate-severe TBI at least 6 months previously defined as a score on the Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) of 9-12 (moderate) 8 or less (severe) and/or a period of Post Traumatic Amnesia (PTA) of 1-24 hours (moderate) more than 24 hours (severe),
•(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 as identified by brain injury staff (or for self-referred participants, as observed by two independent speech pathologists using Prutting’s pragmatic protocol)
•(4)Have a communication partner with whom they interact regularly
•(5)Have a computer with internet connection at their home
•(6)Have adequate English proficiency for completing assessment tasks without the aid of an interpreter.
•Communication partners must:
•(1) Interact with the person with TBI on a regular basis
•(2) Have adequate English proficiency for completing assessment tasks without the aid of an interpreter

•Participants with TBI must not have:
•(a) aphasia of a severity which prevents any participation in conversation
•(b) severe amnesia which would prevent participants from providing informed consent, as determined by the local neuropsychologist
•(c) dysarthria of a severity which would significantly affect intelligibility to an unfamiliar listener
•(d) drug or alcohol addiction, or active psychosis
•(e) co-occurring degenerative neurological disorder
•Communication partners must not have:
•(a) Sustained a brain injury
•(b) Have a known psychiatric history

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