Case Studies: Promoting Strategy Use in Functional Activities
Completed · Not applicable
Conditions studied: Cognitive Impairment, Executive Dysfunction, Acquired Brain Injury
In brief
The purpose of the study is to provide evidence of feasibility, acceptability, patient satisfaction, and patient perceived benefit of the Multicontext (MC) approach. The project consists of eight case studies of persons with acquired brain injury undergoing acute inpatient rehabilitation who have difficulties in completing multiple step activities due to deficits in executive function and/or visual perception. The MC approach provides a structured occupational therapy framework that provides guidelines for enhancing strategy use and self monitoring skills for person's with acquired brain injury.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT04363645
- Run by
- Weill Medical College of Cornell University
- People needed
- 8
- Starts
- 2014-12-14
- Expected to finish
- 2016-12-29
- Last updated by the study team
- 2020-04-27
Who can join
Age: 18 and older, up to 80. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Age between 18 and 80 years
- English-speaking
- Confirmed diagnosis of acquired brain injury (ABI) based on radiological assessment
- Able to comprehend multistep directions and participate in conversation as assessed by the Functional Independence Measure (FIM; required score of 4 or above on Comprehension and Expression items)
- Impaired performance (<2 SD below demographically-corrected normative data) on at least one screening measure of executive functioning
- Able to attend to a cognitive task for at least 10 minutes
- Cognitively independent in basic self-care activities
- Able to read standard size newsprint
- Ability to demonstrate functional use of at least one hand.
You may not qualify if…
- Global aphasia or moderate - severe comprehension deficits (as indicated by a FIM comprehension score of less than 4)
- Global cognitive impairment or dementia as indicated by a score of 20 or less on the Montreal cognitive assessment
- History of treatment for substance abuse or hospitalizations for psychiatric disorder, within the past year
- non-English speaking
Where it is running
- Weill Cornell Medicine — New York, New York, United States
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