Scheduled Telephone Intervention for Individuals With Spinal Cord Injury and Their Families

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Spinal Cord Injury

In brief

The purpose of this study is to evaluate whether scheduled telephone intervention with individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI) and their caregivers in the first year following discharge from acute inpatient rehabilitation will reduce rehospitalizations and emergency room visits as well as improve adjustment to SCI.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00693563

Run by

Jeanne Hoffman

People needed

168

Starts

2007-08-01

Expected to finish

2011-10-01

Last updated by the study team

2013-01-11

Who can join

Age: 16 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• new traumatic SCI
• inpatient acute rehabilitation at the SCI system hospital
• residence in the catchment area at the time of injury

You may not qualify if…

• lack of a telephone
• non-English speaking
• severe psychiatric condition such as psychosis

Where it is running

• Harborview Medical Center — Seattle, Washington, United States
• University of Washington Medical Center — Seattle, Washington, United States

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