MMEPT for Traumatic Brain Injury

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Traumatic Brain Injury
• Interventions: Behavioral: Multimedia Multicultural Educational Program for TBI (MMEPT); Behavioral: RRTBIMS

• Registration Number: NCT02695043
• Lead Sponsor: NYU Langone Health

Brief Summary

The primary purpose of this research is to increase adherence to outpatient rehabilitation of chronically underserved individuals with traumatic brain injury (TBI). The intervention will be a TBI rehabilitation-focused education tool suitable for use with a wide variety of patients, including those with poor literacy skills and those with Limited English Proficiency (LEP), hereafter referred to as the Multimedia Multicultural Educational Program for TBI (MMEPT).

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2016-02-24
• Study First Submitted QC: 2016-02-24
• Study Start: 2016-03
• Study First Posted: 2016-03-01
• Primary Completion: 2019-07-05
• Study Completion: 2019-07-05
• Status Verified: 2019-08
• Last Update Submitted: 2019-08-08
• Last Update Posted: 2019-08-12

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 25

Inclusion Criteria

• A medically documented (e.g., EMS report, hospital record, physician record) TBI as a result of a blow to the head requiring admission to an acute inpatient rehabilitation unit, meeting at least one of the following criteria for moderate to severe TBI:

  1. PTA > 24 hours
  2. Trauma related intracranial neuroimaging abnormalities
  3. Loss of consciousness exceeding 30 minutes
  4. GCS in emergency department of less than 13 (unless due to intubation, sedation or intoxication)

• Proficient in Chinese (Mandarin or Cantonese), Spanish or English,

• Willing to engage in the MMEPT and complete questionnaires,

• Agreeing to participate (i.e., completion of informed consent and HIPAA documents).

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Exclusion Criteria

• Preferred language (language with greatest proficiency) other than English, Chinese or Spanish,
• In minimally conscious or vegetative state,
• Significant symptoms of receptive aphasia, and
• Any acute medical condition that, in the investigator's opinion, makes the person unsuitable or unable to participate. Participants enrolled in the study who are ultimately not discharged to the community at the completion of acute inpatient rehabilitation will be removed from the study.

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Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: SINGLE_GROUP

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
MMPET Group	Multimedia Multicultural Educational Program for TBI (MMEPT)	This group of subjects will be comprised of a subset of culturally diverse patients admitted to the Bellevue the Traumatic Brain Injury Unit at Bellevue. Treatment will focus on improving awareness and comprehension of TBI and its long-term consequences, fostering increased trust in the TBI rehabilitation team, and conveying the importance of continued TBI follow up to maximize recovery.
Control Group	RRTBIMS	The Control Group will be comprised of equally diverse subset of patients who will receive Standard of Care Treatment.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Difference in Rate of Retention	Up to One Week

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

New York University School of Medicine; 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States