NCT00205530

Evaluation of an Intervention Model for Family Crisis and Support

Evaluation of an Intervention Model for Family Crisis and Support (a Research Project Within the Traumatic Brain Injury Model System Grant)

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 160 (actual)
• Sponsor: Virginia Commonwealth University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

To learn more about how a family treatment program helps people after brain injury. Specifically, do families feel better and function better after going through the program, and do patients feel better and function better after going through the program.

Detailed description

To evaluate the efficacy of a structured outpatient family intervention program (BIFI) on family members' emotional well being, life satisfaction, needs, and family functioning; and to evaluate the impact of the BIFI on the emotional well being, life satisfaction, functional independence, vocational status, and neurobehavioral functioning of persons with acquired brain injury (ABI).

Conditions

• Traumatic Brain Injury
• Brain Injury, Chronic

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Brain Injury Family Intervention (BIFI)	The Brain Injury Family Intervention (BIFI) was developed over the last decade based upon considerable clinical experience and research review. The BIFI is a structured approach to helping families address their most common and salient issues, concerns, and challenges. The BIFI is implemented in five 90-minute sessions.

Timeline

• Start date: 2003-01-01
• Primary completion: 2013-01-01
• Completion: 2013-01-01
• First posted: 2005-09-20
• Last updated: 2013-07-31

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States