Improving Outcomes for Care Partners of Persons With Traumatic Brain Injury

NCT ID: NCT04570930

Last Updated: 2024-09-19

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

257 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2020-12-09

Study Completion Date

2023-08-19

Brief Summary

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Care partners of persons with traumatic brain injury (TBI) are often faced with considerable physical and emotional stress resulting from their caregiver role. The researchers hypothesize that the care partners who receive the intervention will show improvements in caregiver strain and mental health.

Detailed Description

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Conditions

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Caregivers

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

This behavioral trial will use a 2-arm randomized controlled design.
Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Just-in-time adaptive intervention (JITAI)

Participants will wear the Fitbit®, provide daily reports of Health- Related Quality of Life (HRQOL) and receive personalized pushes over a six-month (180 day) period.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Just-in-time adaptive intervention (JITAI)

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

JITAI is an emerging intervention that incorporates passive mobile sensor data feedback (sleep and activity \[step\] data from a Fitbit ®), and real-time self-reporting of HRQOL via a study specific app called CareQOL to provide personalized feedback via app alert.

Control

Participants will wear the Fitbit® and provide daily reports of HRQOL over a six-month (180 day) period (without the personalized feedback).

Group Type ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Control

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Participants will wear the Fitbit® and provide daily reports of HRQOL over a six-month (180 day) period.

Interventions

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Just-in-time adaptive intervention (JITAI)

JITAI is an emerging intervention that incorporates passive mobile sensor data feedback (sleep and activity \[step\] data from a Fitbit ®), and real-time self-reporting of HRQOL via a study specific app called CareQOL to provide personalized feedback via app alert.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Control

Participants will wear the Fitbit® and provide daily reports of HRQOL over a six-month (180 day) period.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Be caring for an adult (age 18 or above) with a medically documented TBI that is ≥1-year post-injury and meets the TBI Model Systems (TBIMS) criteria for complicated mild, moderate or severe TBI and who sustained their TBI at age 16 or older
* Provide emotional, physical, and/or financial support/assistance to the individual with the TBI, indicating a response ≥1 to the following question: "On a scale of 0-10, where 0 is "no assistance" and 10 is "assistance with all activities", how much assistance does the person you care for require from you to complete activities of daily living due to problems resulting from his/her TBI? Activities could consist of personal hygiene, dressing and undressing, housework, taking medications, managing money, running errands, shopping for groceries or clothing, transportation, meal preparation and cleanup, remembering things, etc."
* Have access to necessary resources for participating in a technology-based intervention (smartphone/tablet and internet access) and be willing to use their personal equipment/internet for this study, including downloading the study app and the Fitbit® app on their mobile device
* Is able and willing to complete all study assessments for the duration of their study participation (approximately 375 days)

Exclusion Criteria

* Is a professional, paid caregiver (e.g., home health aide)
* Anything that would preclude safe or meaningful participation in the study
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR)

NIH

Sponsor Role collaborator

University of Michigan

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Noelle E Carlozzi

Associate Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

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Noelle Carlozzi, Ph.D.

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

University of Michigan

Locations

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University of Michigan

Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

Site Status

Baylor College of Medicine

Houston, Texas, United States

Site Status

Countries

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United States

References

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Carlozzi NE, Choi SW, Wu Z, Sen S, Troost J, Lyden AK, Miner JA, Graves C, Sander AM. The reliability and validity of the TBI-CareQOL system in four diverse caregiver groups. J Patient Rep Outcomes. 2023 Jun 26;7(1):57. doi: 10.1186/s41687-023-00602-x.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 37358716 (View on PubMed)

Carlozzi NE, Sander AM, Choi SW, Wu Z, Miner JA, Lyden AK, Graves C, Sen S. Improving outcomes for care partners of persons with traumatic brain injury: Protocol for a randomized control trial of a just-in-time-adaptive self-management intervention. PLoS One. 2022 Jun 9;17(6):e0268726. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0268726. eCollection 2022.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 35679283 (View on PubMed)

Provided Documents

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Document Type: Study Protocol and Statistical Analysis Plan

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Document Type: Informed Consent Form

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Other Identifiers

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2R01NR013658

Identifier Type: NIH

Identifier Source: secondary_id

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HUM00181282

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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