Executive Functioning in TBI From Rehabilitation to Social Reintegration: COMPASS

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

91 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2014-03-12

Study Completion Date

2018-03-31

Brief Summary

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

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Detailed Description

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The COMPASS (Community Participation through Self-Efficacy Skills Development) program aims at developing and testing a novel patient-centered intervention framework that can be utilized as a platform for VA community re-integration comparative effectiveness research. The COMPASSgoal intervention will be developed and implemented to meet these needs. COMPASSgoal will integrate principles and best practices of goal self-management. Goal setting is a core skill in self-management training by which persons with chronic health conditions learn to improve their status and decrease symptom impact.3F One important mechanism of action of this program appears to be its positive effect on self-efficacy, or confidence in one's ability to attain goals and solve problems.4F

The study goal is to gather data on the efficacy of a novel approach to psychosocial rehabilitation for Veterans with executive function impairment due to traumatic brain injury (TBI), and to explore over time, through relevant measures, Veteran responsiveness to intervention. Veterans with mild TBI will be randomized into two groups: the COMPASS (Community Participation through Self-Efficacy Skills Development) goal-management intervention group and the supported discharge group.

110 participants with residual deficits in executive function due to TBI will be recruited at a minimum of 3 months post-injury from the TBI program at the DC VAMC over the three-year period of the study. The operational definition of executive dysfunction/ inclusion into the study is based on both clinical diagnosis by a study physician and a standardized executive dysfunction measure, the Frontal Systems Rating Scale (FrSBe score), such that a total score or any of the 3 subscale scores \< 1 SD compared to the normative score would indicate executive dysfunction sufficient to include in the study. The treatment phase for the Veterans enrolled in the intervention group will continue for two consecutive months (8 weekly sessions).

Conditions

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Traumatic Brain Injury Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

SINGLE

Outcome Assessors

Study Groups

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Experimental - COMPASS

Goal-setting sessions

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Experimental - COMPASS

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Controlled randomized clinical trial. Fifty-five participants in the intervention group will receive eight goal self-management sessions over a period of approximately ten weeks.

Control - COMPASS

Informative phone calls

Group Type ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Control - COMPASS

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Increased hours of patient-provider interactions Group.

Interventions

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Experimental - COMPASS

Controlled randomized clinical trial. Fifty-five participants in the intervention group will receive eight goal self-management sessions over a period of approximately ten weeks.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Control - COMPASS

Increased hours of patient-provider interactions Group.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Other Intervention Names

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Supported discharge group

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* 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

Exclusion Criteria

* 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.

Minimum Eligible Age

21 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

55 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes