Brain Injury Inpatient Educational Intervention for Families and Caregivers

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Conditions studied: Traumatic Brain Injury, Acquired Brain Injury

In brief

The Brain Injury Inpatient Guide for Families and Caregivers (BIIG-FACS) is a comprehensive intervention to meet the needs of family members and significant others of patients who are undergoing acute, inpatient brain injury rehabilitation.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01062243

Run by

Virginia Commonwealth University

People needed

110

Starts

2009-07-01

Expected to finish

2012-09-01

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 of patients with ABI will be eligible to participate in the present investigation. ABI is defined as damage to brain tissue caused by stroke, aneurysm, anoxia, non-progressive brain tumor, infection, or an external mechanical force as evidenced by: loss of consciousness, post traumatic amnesia (PTA), objective neurological findings, or skull fracture.
• Lacerations and/or bruises of the scalp or forehead without other criteria listed above will be excluded.
• All family member participants and patients must be at least 18 years of age or older and able to understand and provide consent (or assent in the case of the patients).

You may not qualify if…

• Family members at imminent risk of psychiatric hospitalization, or in imminent danger of hurting themselves or others, as judged by the investigators, will be excluded from the study.

Where it is running

• Virginia Commonwealth University — Richmond, Virginia, United States

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