Telemedicine Brain Injury Coping Skills (BICS-T) Support Group for Brain Injury Survivors and Their Caregivers

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Conditions studied: Traumatic Brain Injury, Coping Skills

In brief

Brain Injury can be devastating for both patients and family members and can result in chronic difficulties in vocational, social, financial, as well as physical functioning. The occurrence of emotional and neurobehavioral challenges in individuals with brain injury is also common with research consistently showing links between these challenges and a person's overall rehabilitation outcome. In order to provide patients and caregivers greater support and teach adaptive coping strategies, the authors of this grant designed and studied a coping skills group specifically for brain injury survivors and their caregivers at the Rehabilitation Hospital of Indiana (RHI) called the Brain Injury Coping Skills group (BICS). BICS is a 12 session (one session per week), manualized, cognitive-behavioral treatment group designed to provide support, coping skills, and psychoeducation aimed to improve perceived self-efficacy (PSE) and emotional functioning.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT04371211

Run by

Rehabilitation Hospital of Indiana

People needed

13

Starts

2018-09-20

Expected to finish

2020-01-01

Last updated by the study team

2025-11-25

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Persons with a history of brain injury (e.g., Traumatic Brain Injury; TBI) or acquired BI such as stroke, hypoxia, ruptured aneurysm, or metabolic encephalopathy);
• 18 years of age and older;
• at least six months post-injury; and
• able to speak English fluently.

You may not qualify if…

• at imminent risk of psychiatric breakdown, or in imminent danger of hurting themselves or others;
• active psychosis;
• aphasia that limits group participation;
• significant neurobehavioral difficulties that would be deemed disruptive to group participation.

Where it is running

• Rehabilitation Hospital of Indiana — Indianapolis, Indiana, United States

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