Resilience/Adjustment Counseling with Booster Sessions for Brain Injuries, Traumatic
Intervention to Promote Survivor Resilience and Adjustment: Efficacy and Sustainability
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Treatment Groups
This trial involves 2 different treatments. Resilience/Adjustment Counseling With Booster Sessions is the primary treatment being studied. Participants will all receive the same treatment. There is no placebo group. The treatments being tested are not being studied for commercial purposes.
Eligibility
This trial is for patients born any sex aged 18 and older. There are 2 eligibility criteria to participate in this trial as listed below.
Approximate Timelines
Measurement Requirements
This trial is evaluating whether Resilience/Adjustment Counseling with Booster Sessions will improve 1 primary outcome and 3 secondary outcomes in patients with Brain Injuries, Traumatic. Measurement will happen over the course of Change from Baseline to Follow-Up (11 months after Baseline).
Patient Q & A Section
What are the signs of brain injuries, traumatic?
Many of the head injuries are asymptomatic. A significant number of penetrating injuries and brainstem injuries are associated with persistent headache. These observations are helpful for early identification of injuries and development of a management plan.
What is brain injuries, traumatic?
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a frequent and disabling problem for all of medical specialties. Traumatic brain injuries constitute a leading cause of injury-inflicted disability in the US, accounting for 1 billion cases annually. Injury-related functional disability results in prolonged hospitalization, a reduction in employment, and other lasting social and psychological problems. This article presents an overview of the physical and mental sequelae, and prevention of traumatic brain injury.
What are common treatments for brain injuries, traumatic?
Most people with traumatic brain injuries need some form of medical, physical or psychological help. The benefits of early and effective intervention for these injuries are critical to their long term outcome.
How many people get brain injuries, traumatic a year in the United States?
About 33.4 million U.S. people had some sort of [traumatic brain injury](https://www.withpower.com/clinical-trials/traumatic-brain-injury) and about 3.2 million people sustained one in 2016. TBIs result in moderate-to-severe disability in the United States. A number of high-risk factors for TBIs have been identified, including age and gender. TBIs resulting in amputation occurred to 324,000 people in 2016. Rates of TBIs continue to rise.
Can brain injuries, traumatic be cured?
While most brain injuries, traumatic can be cured, it is unclear with patients who are medically intact to what extent the injury occurred post-injury. Because many individuals, who are medically intact have healed their brain injuries, they may have benefited from treatment or intervention, and further research is needed to examine which treatments work to cure brain injuries, traumatic.
What causes brain injuries, traumatic?
Traumatic brain injuries are very common, and most accidents happen as the result of violence. Brain injuries are associated with trauma, accidents in roads and cars and the lack of protective measures of the car. Traumatic brain injury is also a result of accidents in and outdoors activities. Prevention of the incidence and consequences can be made by improving the availability and quality of protective clothes.
Has resilience/adjustment counseling with booster sessions proven to be more effective than a placebo?
The study found that a one-session intervention with booster sessions to survivors of rape/spousal abuse has proven to be more effective in reducing PTSD symptomology than in a control condition.
Is resilience/adjustment counseling with booster sessions typically used in combination with any other treatments?
Recent findings suggest that resilience-based interventions, when combined with treatment for PTSD, are effective for improving HRQoL, psychological well-being, and health-related quality of life in persons with moderate-to-severe TBI who are receiving current psychosocial treatment, and that booster sessions are associated with greater improvement of HRQoL after TBI than is treatment for only TBI symptoms only.
How does resilience/adjustment counseling with booster sessions work?
Recent findings provided preliminary evidence to support the effectiveness of a brief 10-session, low-intensity resilience/adjustment intervention for young to middle age adults following a traumatic event. Additional research with larger sample sizes is warranted.
What is the average age someone gets brain injuries, traumatic?
The mean age at traumatic injury was 14 yrs and 8-44 yrs in males and females respectively. Injury related behaviors were the leading causes of traumatic brain injury. A majority of the traumatic brain injury (TBI) resulted in coma, while a large percentage of comatose patients did not regain consciousness. The most frequent injury occurred between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., with one of the leading causes of death being TBI. TBI occurred in all racial groups and were more common in older patients. In the absence of specific prevention or intervention measures, it can be expected that TBI will decrease in the future and the number of deaths due to TBI will be less than before.
What does resilience/adjustment counseling with booster sessions usually treat?
This intervention improved health literacy, social competence skill, and functional skills, but it was not associated with behavioral and physiological changes after traumatic brain injury that could inform the trajectory of recovery trajectories. Further research with a larger sample size, better quality control, and more sensitive measures is needed to compare the effects of various resilience interventions.
What are the common side effects of resilience/adjustment counseling with booster sessions?
In a recent study, findings suggest that resilience/adjustment counseling with booster sessions is effective in enhancing the resilience and well-being of children and adolescents. Resilience counseling may lead to a greater probability that students will be successful in coping with stressful and challenging environmental circumstances when confronted with adversity. More research is necessary to validate this approach and help physicians and other healthcare providers who deliver resilience education services.