Improving Traumatic Brain Injury Rehabilitation Care Transitions With Community Health Services: A Randomized Clinical Trial (CHW Intervention for TBI Care Transitions [CHWI for TBI]), a Research Project Within the TBI Model System

Status: Recruiting
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Intervention Type: Other
Study Type: Interventional
Study Phase: Early Phase 1
SUMMARY

TBI rehabilitation care transitions refer to the processes of preparing patients, families, and community-based healthcare providers for the patient's passage from inpatient rehabilitation to the home and community or to another level of care. Persons with TBI have heterogenous neurological impairment (cognitive and behavioral foremost, along with motor, sensory, and balance), that limits their functional independence and participation, and increases their risk for secondary medical conditions, injuries, rehospitalizations and early mortality

Eligibility
Participation Requirements
Sex: All
Minimum Age: 18
Healthy Volunteers: f
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• Participants must be adults (age 18 or older).

• Must be primary person responsible for supervision/care needs of person with TBI post-IRF discharge.

• The person with TBI must have been admitted to the Brain Injury Service Unit at SAI.

• If the care partner does not live in the same residence as the person with TBI, they must provide multiple daily check-ins on day-to-day care.

• Must agree to use mHealth (texts, calls) and possess or be eligible to acquire a smart phone.

Locations
United States
Virginia
Virginia Commonwealth University
RECRUITING
Richmond
Contact Information
Primary
Katherine Abbasi
katherine.walker@vcuhealth.org
804-828-3703
Backup
Ronald Seel
ronald.seel@vcuhealth.org
Time Frame
Start Date: 2024-04-26
Estimated Completion Date: 2027-08-31
Participants
Target number of participants: 126
Treatments
Other: Standard of Care
Transition Supports and Services (USS) that prepare care partners of persons with TBI for post-rehabilitation discharge
Experimental: Experimental
USS supplemented with community health services delivered by a certified CHW (CHW+USS) for care partners
Related Therapeutic Areas
Sponsors
Leads: Virginia Commonwealth University
Collaborators: National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research, Department of Health and Human Services

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