Evaluation of an Intervention Model for Family Crisis and Support

Completed

Conditions studied: Traumatic Brain Injury, Brain Injury, Chronic

In brief

To learn more about how a family treatment program helps people after brain injury. Specifically, do families feel better and function better after going through the program, and do patients feel better and function better after going through the program.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00205530

Run by

Virginia Commonwealth University

People needed

160

Starts

2003-01-01

Expected to finish

2013-01-01

Last updated by the study team

2013-07-31

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Family members/caregiver friends and persons with acquired brain injury (ABI) who are at least three months postinjury. ABI is defined as damage to brain tissue caused by stroke, aneurysm, anoxia, or an external mechanical force as evidenced by: loss of consciousness, post traumatic amnesia (PTA), objective neurological findings, or skull fracture.

You may not qualify if…

• Families including individuals at imminent risk of psychiatric hospitalization, or in imminent danger of hurting themselves or others, as judged by the investigators.
• Individuals under 18 years of age.

Where it is running

• Virginia Commonwealth University — Richmond, Virginia, United States

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