RecruitingNot ApplicableNCT02920788

Mild TBI Assessment & Rehabilitation

Multi-Level Assessment and Rehabilitation of Combat Mild TBI

Sponsor

VA Office of Research and Development

Enrollment

65 participants

Start Date

Mar 9, 2017

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Conditions

Brain Injuries, Traumatic

Summary

One of the most pressing concerns within the VA currently is the provision of interventions that address the cognitive as well as emotional problems faced by Veterans with mild TBI and comorbid conditions. When completed, these studies will inform us whether training core attentional self-regulatory control functions via personally-relevant activities will be effective in improving daily life for Veterans with mild TBI and comorbid conditions. The study design will provide a test not only of potential benefits for real life functioning, but also determine to what extent these benefits are related to actual changes in cognitive/behavioral performance and brain networks corresponding to these functions. This project will provide a foundation for future studies to investigate the neural mechanisms that support improvements of cognition and behavior in mTBI.

Eligibility

Min Age: 18 Years

Plain Language Summary

Simplified for easier understanding

This clinical trial is studying Brain Health Education (BHE), a behavioral approach called Goal-Oriented Attentional Self-Regulation (GOALS), and others for people with brain injuries, traumatic. The study is currently recruiting participants at 2 locations. People eligible for this study include aged 18 Years and older.

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Interventions

BEHAVIORALGoal-Oriented Attentional Self-Regulation (GOALS)

GOALS is a manualized, therapist-administered cognitive training program that targets executive control functions of applied mindfulness-based attention regulation and goal management strategies and links them to participant-defined real-life goals. In contrast to training via practice on isolated tasks, this training protocol involves application of attention regulation skills and strategies to participant-defined goals in real life, ecologically valid settings. One of the main training aims is to improve self-regulatory control mechanisms as they contribute to goal attainment.

OTHERBrain Health Education (BHE)

BHE group is a formal in-person, active, psycho-educational, control intervention closely matched to GOALS for length, intensity, and contact with a therapist/facilitator. Topics include brain structure, function, sleep, stress, emotion and the brain.

DEVICEfMRI

Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain