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N/A N=20 Supportive Care

Clinical Trial of a Rehabilitation Game - SuperBetter

Concussion · Mild Traumatic Brain Injury · Moderate Traumatic Brain Injury

Enrolled (actual)
20
Serious AEs
0.0%
Results posted
Apr 2021
Primary outcome: Primary: Participation — 14 Participants

Study Design & Population

Study type
Interventional
Phase
N/A
Interventions
SuperBetter play (Behavioral)
Age
Pediatric, Adult · 15+ yrs
Sex
All
Sponsor
Ohio State University
Primary completion
Jan 2015

Outcome Measures

OutcomeResultp-value
PRIMARY
Participation
14
SECONDARY
Satisfaction With App
2.0

Summary

Today's hospitals need innovative solutions to help patients transition from our care to self-management at home. The vast majority of the patients seen in Dodd Rehabilitation Hospital and associated clinics leave our care with persistent and life-altering challenges - behavioral, cognitive, emotional and/or physical. The period of time immediately following discharge is an under-addressed stage within the continuum of care. The investigators are researching solutions to help patients in this transition to self-care and believe that multiplayer gaming paradigms may be a promising innovation to facilitate this transition. The investigators believe that Dr. Jane McGonigal's SuperBetter, and positive play games like it, are promising novel interventions that could make a positive difference in the ability of our patients to successfully transition to self care after discharge from therapeutic care. Specifically, the investigators will evaluate feasibility of use of such a game by mild to moderate brain injured individuals and to record pilot data to help us plan a clinical effectiveness follow up study. Our goal is to finish this study with an intervention tailored for use within the clinical continuum of care and sufficient pilot data to prepare for a randomized clinical control trial of this intervention.

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

  • Patients: between 15 and 25 years old
  • diagnosed within the last year with at least one traumatic brain injury (mild or moderate)
  • subjective report of less than complete recovery from the injury
  • easy access to computer with internet access
  • compatible web browser (such as the latest version of Internet Explorer, Chrome, Firefox or other as determined by developers)
  • has a support giver (18 or over) who is willing to participate in this study also

Exclusion Criteria

● history of substance abuse as self reported by patient or reported by support giver

View full record on ClinicalTrials.gov →

Data sourced from ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT01398566). Outcome figures and adverse-event rates are extracted automatically from the registry's posted results and are provided for clinician reference, not as a substitute for the primary publication.

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