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The Parkwood Pacing and Planning™ App
Sponsor: London Health Sciences Centre Research Institute OR Lawson Research Institute of St. Joseph's
Summary
In efforts to assist people who have had a concussion (mild traumatic brain injury), the Parkwood Pacing and Planning™ app has been developed and tested and will be released to the public. The app uses a point system where users have a daily point maximum assigned based on symptom severity with daily activities (recorded by the users). Users can then schedule their daily activities based on their allowed points. The goal is to help users with symptom self-management by facilitating activity planning and pacing. Patients and clinicians have provided positive feedback on the initial version of the app. Using this as a foundation, the investigators envision enhancing the app to provide a more personalized user experience and to enable further discovery and innovations in the recovery from concussion. This will be accomplished through data analytics and machine-learning techniques, informed by the results of a large-scale research trial. This strategy will be used to customize the point system to facilitate the user with pacing and planning.
Official title: Efficacy of the Pacing and Planning App for Persons With Mild Acquired Brain Injury
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
18 Years - Any
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
200
Start Date
2021-02-01
Completion Date
2026-12
Last Updated
2023-03-24
Healthy Volunteers
No
Conditions
Interventions
Pacing and Planning App
Participants will download and use the Pacing and Planning app through mybrainpacer.ca. The app will be used to track and monitor their daily tasks and symptoms at any time, for as long as they would like to use the app. While using the app, participants will also fill out short assessments, including the Rivermead Post-Concussion Questionnaire once a month (to monitor symptoms) and an overall symptom question once a week (to rate how they feeling in general from a lot better to a lot worse).
Locations (1)
Parkwood Institute
London, Ontario, Canada