Motivation and self-awareness in ABI
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Improving treatment motivation and self-awareness in people with moderate to severe acquired brain injury (ABI)
IRAS ID
208077
Contact name
Hamish McLeod
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
University of Glasgow
Clinicaltrials.gov Identifier
Duration of Study in the UK
0 years, 10 months, 30 days
Research summary
Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) is damage to the brain caused by a head injury or illness/disease such as stroke. ABI is often associated with poor awareness into ongoing symptoms of damage to the brain, which can be cognitive, physical, and psychological. A multi-disciplinary rehabilitation programme is recommended to help with such symptoms. However, without self-awareness of difficulties, people with ABI can have poor motivation to take part.
The study aims to discover whether showing people a short ‘preparatory’ video about ABI rehabilitation has an effect on self-awareness, and their motivation to take part in rehabilitation offered to them.
The study also aims to investigate the feasibility of using the preparatory video on a larger scale across inpatient ABI rehabilitation, by exploring whether staff find delivering the video easy to incorporate into routine practice.
People invited to take part in the study will be recruited from a specialist inpatient brain injury rehabilitation unit (BIRT). People who are approached will be given information about what the study will involve, and can choose not to take part.
Participants will be asked to fill out a series of questionnaires. They will then be supported to watch a short video every two/three days, over twelve weeks. Half will be shown the video right away, while the other half will wait six weeks. The video aims to improve understanding of the difficulties they may be experiencing, and inform what rehabilitation might be like. All participants will repeat questionnaires after 6 and 12 weeks. The delayed group will also repeat after 18 weeks.
Staff participants will complete a questionnaire about patients’ awareness, and record details about patients’ participation in rehabilitation sessions, at pre-trial, week 12 and week 18. At the end of the trial they will complete an evaluation of their experience of watching the video.
REC name
West of Scotland REC 3
REC reference
16/WS/0232
Date of REC Opinion
5 Dec 2016
REC opinion
Favourable Opinion