Executive Functioning in TBI From Rehabilitation to Social Reintegration: COMPASS

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Traumatic Brain Injury, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

In brief

Interventional, controlled clinical trial with two arms, 110 Veterans with TBI and PTSD

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01816061

Run by

VA Office of Research and Development

People needed

91

Starts

2014-03-12

Expected to finish

2018-03-31

Last updated by the study team

2019-09-25

Who can join

Age: 21 and older, up to 55. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• TBI of at least mild severity using criteria related to disturbance of consciousness (VHA TBI Comprehensive Evaluation screening tool).
• Obtained informed consent.
• Males or females of working age, between the ages of 18 and 55.
• Medically stable with physician approval to participate
• Ability to comprehend and communicate in English at a 6th grade level
• Executive dysfunction as identified by Frontal Systems Rating Scale (FrSBe) and/or other study assessments

You may not qualify if…

• Unable to provide informed consent and no proxy available.
• Severe impairment of language or day- to-day memory that would preclude participation in a verbally-based therapy.
• Life expectancy of less than 36 months.
• Severe multiple trauma (as judged by the attending physicians and/or investigators that is too severe to participate in this study) such as:
• severe burns
• serious organ damage
• amputations
• multiple fractures
• History of substance abuse severe enough to cause neurologic damage, pre-morbid history of neurologic disease (e.g., stroke).
• Prior history of known bipolar disorder or schizophrenia or severe psychiatric illness as determined by medical history.

Where it is running

• Washington DC VA Medical Center, Washington, DC — Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States

Full record on ClinicalTrials.gov

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