NCT02876666

Spinal Cord Injury Virtual Coach RCT

Spinal Cord Injury Virtual Coach to Promote Self-Care in Pressure Ulcer Prevention

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 40 (actual)
• Sponsor: Boston University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The SCI Virtual Coach study has developed an on-screen, human-like character that will provide support, education and coaching to adults with spinal cord injury (SCI) to aid in the prevention of serious secondary conditions like pressure ulcers. In a randomized controlled trial, participants assigned to "the Coach" intervention will have a touch-screen computer placed in their homes and be asked to interact with the Coach on a daily basis for 2 months. Participants will be asked to complete surveys at baseline and 2 months. The SCI Virtual Coach study aims to measure how accessible and usable participants feel the Coach is, as well as participants' adherence to the Coach's instructions. It will also gauge how effective the Coach is in changing self-care knowledge, health care behaviors, self-efficacy for self-care, and perception of social support in participants.

Conditions

• Spinal Cord Injuries

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	SCI Virtual Coach	Participants are given a computer with the SCI Virtual Coach program and are asked to interact with the Coach daily for 2 months.

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-01-01
• Primary completion: 2017-06-30
• Completion: 2017-06-30
• First posted: 2016-08-24
• Last updated: 2017-07-28

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States