NCT03391583

Can Targeted Education Impact the Current Standard of Care in Patients With Mild Traumatic Brain Injury?

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 70 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Unity Health Toronto · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The study will ask the question as to whether or not it is possible to deliver education material to patients with a mild traumatic brain injury in a consistent matter. The question will be asked as to whether an educational intervention decreases symptom reporting specifically looking at headache symptoms. Half of the patients will receive the current standard of care in the tertiary clinic they have been referred to while the other half will also receive the current standard of care with the addition of targeted headache educational material at various time points.

Detailed description

Post-traumatic headache is a common symptom endorsed in individuals who have suffered from mild traumatic brain injury. Headaches are often debilitating and can significantly impact a patient's ability to function and interact in society(Azulay et.al 2013). The provision of education to patients and primary care physicians is important. There is often not enough time during clinic appointments to ensure that patients understand the pathophysiology, treatment and red-flags of their post concussive symptoms. The question is asked as to whether educational material can be delivered in a consistent and comprehensible manner. The study will look at whether or not targeted headache education material presented to patients at multiple time points outside of the current standard of care is feasible and if there is any impact on symptom severity scores utilizing standardized surveys such as the Rivermead Post Concussion Questionnaire. A patient's frequency and type of social interactions during their recovery along with their perceived quality of life will be measured using the Participation Assessment with Recombined Tools-Objective (PART-O tool) and the Quality of Life after Brain Injury (Quolibri) tools respectively will be analyzed. By providing the basics of when to seek medical attention, the hope is be able to track what type and how frequently patients access medical treatment outside of the tertiary care clinic setting. The investigators would like to see whether this education model is feasible and can be used as a consistent message sent to patients as well as other health care professionals.

Conditions

• Headache Disorders
• Post-Concussion Syndrome
• Mild Traumatic Brain Injury

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Education	Participants in the education arm of the study will be provided with three PowerPoint presentations. Material for these slides has been adapted from material developed by the Ontario Neurotrauma Foundation. Topics to be addressed will surround post-traumatic headache and will include information regarding common symptoms, timeline for improvement, red- flags and when to seek medical attention

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-01-08
• Primary completion: 2019-12-17
• Completion: 2019-12-17
• First posted: 2018-01-05
• Last updated: 2019-04-18

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Canada