Efficacy of the Pacing and Planning App for Persons With Mild Acquired Brain Injury

Status: Recruiting
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Intervention Type: Device
Study Type: Interventional
Study Phase: Not Applicable
SUMMARY

In efforts to assist people who have had a concussion (mild traumatic brain injury), the Parkwood Pacing and Planning™ app has been developed and tested and will be released to the public. The app uses a point system where users have a daily point maximum assigned based on symptom severity with daily activities (recorded by the users). Users can then schedule their daily activities based on their allowed points. The goal is to help users with symptom self-management by facilitating activity planning and pacing. Patients and clinicians have provided positive feedback on the initial version of the app. Using this as a foundation, the investigators envision enhancing the app to provide a more personalized user experience and to enable further discovery and innovations in the recovery from concussion. This will be accomplished through data analytics and machine-learning techniques, informed by the results of a large-scale research trial. This strategy will be used to customize the point system to facilitate the user with pacing and planning.

Eligibility
Participation Requirements
Sex: All
Minimum Age: 18
Healthy Volunteers: f
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• Experienced a mild traumatic brain injury/concussion

• Disclosure of mechanism of injury and whether they were diagnosed with a mild traumatic brain injury/concussion by a registered health care practitioner

• 18 yeas of age or older

• Access to a smartphone or tablet

• Able to read, write, and understand English

Locations
Other Locations
Canada
Parkwood Institute
RECRUITING
London
Contact Information
Primary
Dalton Wolfe, PhD
dwolfe@uwo.ca
5196854292
Backup
Marquise Bonn, MSc
mmayo23@uwo.ca
5196854292
Time Frame
Start Date: 2021-02-01
Estimated Completion Date: 2026-12
Participants
Target number of participants: 200
Treatments
Experimental: Pacing and Planning App
The Pacing and Planning Program is a points system to aid individuals with an acquired brain injury/concussion in planning daily activities and managing symptoms. Activities are allotted various points, depending on the energy the task requires and the symptoms they create. Activities can include anything from grocery shopping to driving or watching TV, etc. Patients are allotted a number of points for a day, and therefore learn to sparingly perform activities. This results in a reduction of symptoms and improved recovery time.
Related Therapeutic Areas
Sponsors
Collaborators: St. Joseph's Health Care (SJHC) Foundation, Cowan Foundation
Leads: London Health Sciences Centre Research Institute OR Lawson Research Institute of St. Joseph's

This content was sourced from clinicaltrials.gov