Prospective Memory in Children With Traumatic Brain Injury

NCT ID: NCT00061399

Last Updated: 2014-10-29

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Total Enrollment: 178 participants
• Study Classification: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2002-07-31
• Study Completion Date: 2006-12-31

Brief Summary

Prospective memory (PM) is memory to complete future tasks, such as recalling to give a note to someone when you next see them, pick up milk on the way home, or remembering to keep an appointment. This study will evaluate PM in children with traumatic brain injury (TBI).

Detailed Description

While much has been learned about how children with TBIs learn and recall stories, word lists, and pictures, little is known about how they perform PM tasks. Impairment in PM could have serious implications for academic and vocational pursuits. This study will investigate PM in children with mild or severe TBI. The study will focus on three major themes: 1) strategies that may help children with TBI overcome or minimize their PM deficits; 2) how specific areas of cognition can be impaired following TBI and in turn impair PM; and 3) the impact of PM deficits on a child's daily functioning, both at school and at home. The study will also evaluate children without TBI (control group).

Each child will participate in one study evaluation. The evaluation will last approximately 4 hours, with a lunch break and other rest breaks as necessary. Assessments will include neuropsychological tests of attention, memory, and general intellectual functioning. Experimental tasks will include measures of metacognition for prospective memory, elucidation of strategic versus automatic processes involved in PM, and the effect of motivation manipulations in overcoming PM deficits with varying working memory loads. The child's parent or guardian will also be asked to complete some tests to measure the impact of PM deficits on the child's daily home life.

Conditions

Traumatic Brain Injury

Study Design

• Study Time Perspective: PROSPECTIVE

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• English speaker
• Minimum birth weight of 2500 grams (5.5 lbs) and 37 weeks' gestation

• Head injury resulting in a post-resuscitation Glasgow Coma Scale score of either 13 to 15 or 3 to 8
• No evidence of hypoxic injury

Exclusion Criteria

• History of epilepsy, mental retardation, or documented evidence of developmental dysfunction
• Previous hospitalization for head injury involving loss of consciousness or post-concussional symptoms
• History of autism, major psychiatric disorder, or pervasive developmental delay
• History of meningitis or encephalitis
• History of child abuse
• History of chronic or uncontrolled serious physical disorders (cancer, uncontrolled diabetes, cystic fibrosis, etc.)
• Note: siblings of participants with TBI or orthopedically-injured comparison children will not be enrolled to maintain the independence of the groups

• Minimum Eligible Age: 9 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)

NIH

Sponsor Role: lead

Principal Investigators

Stephen R. McCauley, Ph.D.

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Baylor College of Medicine

Other Identifiers

K23HD040896

Identifier Type: NIH

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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