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Improving Traumatic Brain Injury Rehab Care With Comm Health Services: a Research Project Within the TBI Model System
Sponsor: Virginia Commonwealth University
Summary
TBI rehabilitation care transitions refer to the processes of preparing patients, families, and community-based healthcare providers for the patient's passage from inpatient rehabilitation to the home and community or to another level of care. Persons with TBI have heterogenous neurological impairment (cognitive and behavioral foremost, along with motor, sensory, and balance), that limits their functional independence and participation, and increases their risk for secondary medical conditions, injuries, rehospitalizations and early mortality
Official title: Improving Traumatic Brain Injury Rehabilitation Care Transitions With Community Health Services: A Randomized Clinical Trial (CHW Intervention for TBI Care Transitions [CHWI for TBI]), a Research Project Within the TBI Model System
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
18 Years - Any
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
126
Start Date
2024-04-26
Completion Date
2027-08-31
Last Updated
2025-05-13
Healthy Volunteers
No
Conditions
Interventions
Standard of Care
The usual Transition Supports and Services (USS) that prepare care partners of persons with TBI for post-rehabilitation discharge, so the the delivery of traditional CHW outreach services such as finding health, community and social determinants referrals, problem-solving, and connecting care partners to long-term supports/services
Experimental
Novel aspects of the CHW experimental intervention for TBI care partners include: 1. CHW services begin prior to inpatient rehabilitation discharge; 2. care partners get timely, useful health management materials; 3. encounters focus on unlimited, brief, situation-focused calls to help care partners assess and resolve pressing concerns; and 4. long-term support capacity for care partners is built by establishing a reliable referral network of medical, community, and social services that become foundational resources beyond study completion.
Locations (1)
Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, Virginia, United States