The Emotion Builder: An Intervention for Emotional Deficits After Brain Injury
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 发起方
- EmotEd
- 入组人数
- 17
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- Toronto Alexithymia Scale-20 (TAS-20)
研究概览
简要总结
The purpose of this study is to examine a web-based training program for treating emotional problems in people who have suffered a traumatic brain injury (TBI).
详细描述
This is a pilot study to examine how subjects with TBI feel about the virtual reality program as a treatment and to assess the effectiveness of the virtual reality program at increasing subjects' awareness and understanding of emotions.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Na
- 干预模型
- Single Group
- 主要目的
- Treatment
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 65 Years（Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •TBI (injury due to an external physical force);
- •Moderate to severe TBI, defined either by74 Glasgow Coma Score at time of injury (≤12), or post-traumatic amnesia (≥1 day), or loss of consciousness (≥30 minutes);
- •≥1 year post-injury;
- •between 18-65 years old;
- •Have a moderate to high alexithymia score (≥52) on the TAS-2070 at screening.
- •Exclusion criteria:
- •Diagnosed with pre-morbid neurological disorders (e.g. stroke, autism, alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease);
- •Formerly diagnosed with a developmental disability;
- •Pre-morbid diagnosis of major psychiatric disorders (e.g. schizophrenia);
- •Unable to follow directions;
- •Uncorrected visual or hearing impairments that would prevent sufficient task participation;
- •No access to reliable transportation.
排除标准
- 未提供
结局指标
主要结局
Toronto Alexithymia Scale-20 (TAS-20)
时间窗: Week 6
This is a 20-item self-report questionnaire comprised of three sub-constructs (Difficulty Identifying feelings, Difficulty Describing Feelings, Externally-oriented Thinking). The full scale range is 20-100 (higher scores indicate higher alexithymia). Subscales are summed to compute a total score Scores between 52 and 60 indicate moderate alexithymia; scores 61 and higher indicate high alexithymia.
Levels of Emotional Awareness Scale (LEAS)
时间窗: Week 6
The LEAS is comprised of ten hypothetical scenarios that are three or four sentences in length. Participants must respond how they think they would feel and how another person would feel in response to the hypothetical scenario. The more discrete emotions (e.g., bad vs sad) receive higher points, as well as blended emotions (e.g. sad and angry). There are 10 items on this measure. The minimum score for each item is 0 and the max score for each item is 5. The item scores are summed to calculate a total score. Thus, the total scores range from 0-50; 0=lowest awareness and 50=highest awareness. A computerized scoring system and parallel forms were used.
次要结局
- Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) as an Assessment of Depression(Week 6)
- State Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI)(Week 6)
研究者
Dawn Neumann
Assistant Research Professor, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, IU School of Medicine
Indiana University