Clinical Trial of a Rehabilitation Game - SuperBetter

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Conditions studied: Concussion, Mild Traumatic Brain Injury, Moderate Traumatic Brain Injury

In brief

Today's hospitals need innovative solutions to help patients transition from our care to self-management at home. The vast majority of the patients seen in Dodd Rehabilitation Hospital and associated clinics leave our care with persistent and life-altering challenges - behavioral, cognitive, emotional and/or physical. The period of time immediately following discharge is an under-addressed stage within the continuum of care. The investigators are researching solutions to help patients in this transition to self-care and believe that multiplayer gaming paradigms may be a promising innovation to facilitate this transition. The investigators believe that Dr. Jane McGonigal's SuperBetter, and positive play games like it, are promising novel interventions that could make a positive difference in the ability of our patients to successfully transition to self care after discharge from therapeutic care. Specifically, the investigators will evaluate feasibility of use of such a game by mild to moderate brain injured individuals and to record pilot data to help us plan a clinical effectiveness follow up study. Our goal is to finish this study with an intervention tailored for use within the clinical continuum of care and sufficient pilot data to prepare for a randomized clinical control trial of this intervention.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01398566

Run by

Ohio State University

People needed

20

Starts

2014-05-01

Expected to finish

2015-01-01

Last updated by the study team

2021-04-06

Who can join

Age: 15 and older, up to 25. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Patients: between 15 and 25 years old
• diagnosed within the last year with at least one traumatic brain injury (mild or moderate)
• subjective report of less than complete recovery from the injury
• easy access to computer with internet access
• compatible web browser (such as the latest version of Internet Explorer, Chrome, Firefox or other as determined by developers)
• has a support giver (18 or over) who is willing to participate in this study also

You may not qualify if…

• ● history of substance abuse as self reported by patient or reported by support giver

Where it is running

• The Ohio State University Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Department — Columbus, Ohio, United States

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