Setting goals for rehabilitation after brain injury

• Research type

  Research Study

• Full title

  Exploring the use of the Values in Action Inventory of Strengths in the process of goal setting in an acquired brain injury community rehabilitation setting: a feasibility trial

• IRAS ID

  244241

• Contact name

  Jonathan Evans

• Contact email

  jonathan.evans@glasgow.ac.uk

• Sponsor organisation

  NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde

• Duration of Study in the UK

  0 years, 10 months, 13 days

• Research summary

  There is no gold standard procedure for setting goals for rehabilitation after acquired brain injury (ABI). Meaningful goals are important as they are motivating and empowering for clients engaging in rehabilitation (Dalton et al., 2012). There is potential in the use of positive psychology (PP) (the study of positive individual traits, and subjective experience, and how these factors lead to improved quality of life) with ABI rehabilitation. The Values in Action Inventory of Strengths (VIA-IS), is a central and validated tool of PP, designed to identify individual’s positive traits (Peterson & Seligman, 2004), and may be helpful in assisting goal setting after ABI.
  The primary aim of this study is to examine the feasibility and acceptability of using the VIA-IS in the goal setting process for ABI rehabilitation, within a Randomised Control Trial context. This study expects to recruit two groups of twenty-four ABI participants from the community. Participants will be allocated randomly into two groups, the first will use their top five results of the VIA-IS to generate goals for rehabilitation. The second group will complete the VIA-IS after goal setting as usual. A follow-up phone call two weeks later will assess memory for goals in both groups; goals linked to personal values may be more personally meaningful and as a result better remembered. Participants will be debriefed at the end of this phone call. ABI Participants in both groups and clinicians facilitating the goal setting sessions will provide feedback about the session, which, along with data about recruitment and retention of participants, will enable us to investigate the feasibility of conducting a full scale trial. Analysing the categories of goals will enable the investigation of whether there are any differences in the nature of goals set between the groups.

• REC name

  West of Scotland REC 4

• REC reference

  18/WS/0197

• Date of REC Opinion

  3 Dec 2018

• REC opinion

  Further Information Favourable Opinion