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Brain Injuries, TraumaticEarly Phase 1REACTNCT02337114

Recovery Enhancement From Traumatic Brain Injury Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy - a Pilot Study.

A Early Phase 1 study testing Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Treatment as Usual in people with Brain Injuries, Traumatic, run by University of Glasgow at 1 site in United Kingdom.

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Finished. The study has ended and is not enrolling. Results may be posted on the official record.

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Trial summary

Is Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) feasible and acceptable for adults with severe Traumatic Brain Injury (sTBI) in inpatient services? sTBI is associated with depression, anxiety and low self awareness. A key factor in recovery is adjustment to the effects of injury. Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Ages 18 years and older
Conditions the study is for
Brain Injuries, Traumatic
What is being tested?
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Treatment as Usual
Could I receive a placebo?
No, everyone receives an active treatment
How many people
47 participants
Where
1 siteUnited Kingdom
Study dates
Jan 2015to Sep 2015
Phase
Early Phase 1
Are there results?
None posted in the registry

Key requirements

Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.

  • Ages 18 years and older
  • All sexes
  • No healthy volunteers
  • Adult, Older adult

Who may be able to join

  • All clients must:
  • have sustained a severe TBI after the age of 18; indicated by presence of posttraumatic amnesia for a day or more OR loss of consciousness for 30 minutes or more following injury OR scores of eight or less on the Glasgow Coma Scale.
  • have sufficient English language skills to enable valid participation using standard tests and questionnaires
  • be admitted to BIRT for neuropsychological rehabilitation
  • have sufficient cognitive capacity to complete questionnaires independently and participate in discussions as part of the ACT intervention.
  • All psychology staff must have:
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  • completed 1.5 day ACT training
  • time and resources to:
  • administer ACT intervention to at least one group of 3-4 clients once a week for a six week period within the time frame suggested for this pilot study
  • participate in a focus group following intervention providing their views of the study protocol
  • complete the SAFE questionnaire identifying barriers to treatment implementation
  • Care staff not involved in delivering the intervention (including nursing staff and rehabilitation support workers)
  • will have the time and resources to complete 2 questionnaires
  • work directly with the clients receiving the intervention
  • have commenced at BIRT employment prior to the first intervention session.
  • will have the time and resources to participate in the focus group, if based at Graham Anderson House

Who cannot join

  • Clients will be excluded from the study if they:
  • lack capacity to consent to participate in research as assessed by staff at BIRT or by the researcher when discussing consent with the participant
  • will remain in the unit for less than eight weeks
  • have challenging behaviour that may put the researcher or participant at risk or prevent participation in the study.
  • Psychology staff will be excluded if:
  • they have not received the appropriate training
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  • they consider that do not have the time and resources to partake in all the research tasks.
  • Care staff will be excluded from this study if:
  • they have commenced employment after the study procedures have commenced
  • they believe they do not have the time and resources to complete research tasks
  • they do not work directly with clients participating in study

Trial locations and contacts

1 site in 1 country.

United Kingdom1 site
  • Brain Injury Rehabilitation Trust

    Glasgow

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About this study

Official title: REACT - Recovery Enhancement From TBI Using ACT. A Pilot Study.

Is Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) feasible and acceptable for adults with severe Traumatic Brain Injury (sTBI) in inpatient services? sTBI is associated with depression, anxiety and low self awareness. A key factor in recovery is adjustment to the effects of injury. Psychological intervention may facilitate this change; however what works is unclear. ACT seeks to improve psychological flexibility; the ability to be present with difficult thoughts and emotions, rather than fighting them, and to accept ourselves as we are, not what we believe we should be. Current research is limited, but what is published suggests it may be useful for this group.

Due to the limited research this pilot study aims to conduct preliminary analysis on the acceptability and feasibility of ACT for people with sTBI whilst also examining the suitability of the study protocol in order to make recommendations for future studies. Clients and staff from three Brain Injury Rehabilitation Trust (BIRT) centres will be recruited, one of which will serve as the intervention centre.

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Clients in the intervention group will be asked to complete questionnaires a week before and after participation in the 6 week ACT programme. Clients in the comparison group will be asked to complete questionnaires a week before and after receiving 6 weeks of treatment as usual (TAU). The treatment group will also receive TAU. All participants will be invited to participate in a focus group at the end of this 8 week period to discuss their involvement in the study.

Staff will be asked to complete a parallel version of one of the client questionnaires within a similar timeframe. In addition staff at the intervention centre will be invited to attend a focus group and complete an additional questionnaire after the eight week period.

Read the detailed description

A pilot study design will initially assess the feasibility and acceptability of the ACT and study protocol with this client group in order to inform a future clinical trial.

The methodology involves both quantitative and qualitative methods and will involve inpatients at Brain Injury Rehabilitation Trust (BIRT) units, staff involved in the day to day care of inpatients and clinicians involved in the administration of therapy. Quantitative methods (questionnaires) were chosen to assess any possible change in assessment measures. The measures chosen have been previously used. They have good validity (the ability to answer the questions asked) and reliability, and therefore are practically suitable for measuring outcomes of therapy. Qualitative methods (focus groups) were also chosen, owing to the pilot nature of this research, in order to obtain personal opinion on the acceptability of the intervention and the treatment protocol, from those participating.

The intervention will be administered, alongside TAU, to inpatients at a BIRT centre in Glasgow and will be compared to a comparison group which will receive TAU only (who will be based in BIRT centres in either York and/or Leeds). The rational for choosing a BIRT centre in Glasgow for the intervention group is one of convenience as all researchers involved in the study are based in Glasgow. This will help facilitate data collection and reduce cost. Given that all BIRT centres adhere to a similar philosophy of care and rehabilitation and service user profiles are relatively similar, it was believed that recruiting elsewhere for the purpose of comparison would be appropriate. Recruiting treatment and comparison groups from separate centres also ensures that clients receiving TAU only do not learn ACT strategies accidentally through discussion with peers or staff. If this were to happen any indication of change could not be attributed to the difference in treatments provided.

Five participant groups will be recruited:

  • clients in the inpatient setting (treatment group),
  • clients in the inpatient setting (comparison group),
  • care staff working directly with clients (treatment group),
  • care staff working directly with clients (comparison group)
  • psychology staff involved in administering the intervention.

All participants will be provided with an information sheet and consent will be sought prior to their participation in the study. All interventions, assessments and focus groups will be completed at the participants respective centres. All recruitment, with the exception of the psychology staff who are a convenient sample, will be conducted by a staff member not involved in the direct write up of the study. Further to this all outcome measures and focus groups will be conducted by researchers not involved in the provision of treatment.

Psychology staff at the intervention centre who have completed training on ACT will be further informed of the study. If they choose to participate they will recruit clients at BIRT in Glasgow, completing a record form identifying inclusion and exclusion criteria met. This form will allow the staff to outline any barriers or difficulties encountered as part of this process. Information sheets will then be provided to recruited clients, in addition to care staff who work with them.

The study will also be explained to heads of service at each of the comparison sites, providing them both with an integrated protocol. They will identify a point of contact who will complete recruitment as detailed above.

Each participant will be given between 24hours and 1 week to decide whether to participate.

Researchers will first meet with care staff informed of the study at each centre to discuss their own consent and provide consent form to them. At this point only risk information for each client will be discussed with the care staff with the purpose of ensuring the safety of both the clients and researchers at first point of contact.

Researchers will meet with recruited clients individually to discuss consent and complete questionnaires.

Researchers will again meet with care staff to discuss client demographic information and to complete one questionnaire, if clients have consented for this to take place.

The trained psychology staff will provide 6 weeks of ACT training to clients in the treatment group weekly. Each group will have up to 4 clients per group.

Researchers will meet with both groups after this time period to repeat testing of the questionnaires with both staff.

Details concerning what treatments, aside from ACT, were provided to each client during the 6 week period will be collected from case files and through discussion with staff.

Clients at all centres will be invited to take part in a focus group at this time to discuss their participation in the study.

Care staff at the intervention centre will be invited to participate in a focus group.

Psychology staff at the intervention centre will be invited to participate in a focus group and complete a questionnaire.

Further research tasks to be completed by staff:

Any observations as part of applying the study protocol will also be documented. For example, the participant flow, drop out rates, the administration of questionnaires, the storage of materials and ethical issues will all be commented upon as per the objective of the overall pilot study.

Guidelines for reporting Serious Adverse Events (SAEs) will be piloted as part of this study. In order to establish base rates for this group, a record will be kept of any SAE experience by participants of intervention or comparison group. A checklist of potential SAEs will be used at both times of testing for treatment and control group in order to establish whether any SAEs occurred.

Being tested
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Treatment as Usual
Keywords
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
Medical subject headings
Brain Injuries, Traumatic

What participants receive

What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.

  • Acceptance and Commitment TherapyBehavioural

    A psychotherapeutic intervention that aims to enhance individuals' willingness to have difficult experiences but persist with behaviours that reflect what is important to them.

  • Treatment as UsualBehavioural

    A client-centred goal planning system linked to community reintegration and based on a holistic rehabilitation model including counselling, medical management, cognitive behavioural therapy and pharmacotherapy.

Study groups in NCT02337114
Study groupRoleWhat they receive
Intervention groupExperimentalTreatment as Usual and Acceptance \& Commitment Therapy
Receives: Behavioral: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy; Behavioral: Treatment as Usual
Comparison groupOtherTreatment as Usual
Receives: Behavioral: Treatment as Usual

What is being measured

The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.

  1. Acceptability of ACT as measured by focus-group discussions with clients and staff; number of participants withdrawing from study

    Qualitative thematic analysis of focus-group discussions with clients and staff; number of participants withdrawing from study

    Measured: 9 weeks

  2. Suitability of ACT as measured by Acceptance and Action Questionnaire - Acquired Brain Injury

    Quantitative comparison between groups of results of Acceptance and Action Questionnaire - Acquired Brain Injury

    Measured: 9 weeks

  3. Feasibility of ACT as measured by focus-group discussions with clients and staff; number of participants considering intervention satisfactory/appropriate

    Qualitative thematic analysis of focus-group discussions with clients and staff; number of participants considering intervention satisfactory/appropriate

    Measured: 9 weeks

Secondary outcomes (3)
  1. Suitability of ACT, as measured by Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale

    Quantitative comparison between groups of results of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale

    Measured: 9 weeks

  2. Suitability of ACT as measured by the Motivation for Traumatic Brain Injury Rehabilitation Questionnaire

    Quantitative comparison between groups of results of Motivation for Traumatic Brain Injury Rehabilitation Questionnaire

    Measured: 9 weeks

  3. Suitability of ACT as measured by Awareness Questionnaire

    Quantitative comparison between groups of results of Awareness Questionnaire

    Measured: 9 weeks

Timeline

From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.

  1. First posted13 Jan 2015 (estimated)
  2. Study startJan 2015
  3. Primary completionSep 2015
  4. Study completionSep 2015

Resources

More details

For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.

Study design
Study type
Interventional
Phase
Early Phase 1
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Non-randomised
Intervention model
Parallel groups
Masking
None (open label)
Enrolment
47 participants (actual)
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT02337114
Sponsor's protocol ID
14/WS/1152
Acronym
REACT
Status last verified
Dec 2015
First submitted
12 Dec 2014
Last updated
10 Dec 2015
Results posted
No
Data monitoring committee
No

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

A Early Phase 1 study testing Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Treatment as Usual in people with Brain Injuries, Traumatic, run by University of Glasgow at 1 site in United Kingdom.

The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.

Who may be eligible to take part?

The sponsor lists 16 inclusion and 11 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.

Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?

The record says: finished, as of the sponsor's last update on 10 Dec 2015. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.

Where is the study taking place?

The record lists 1 site in United Kingdom. Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.

What are the possible benefits and risks?

They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.

What does this phase mean?

Early Phase 1 (sometimes called Phase 0) studies give a very small amount of a treatment to a few people, mainly to see how the body handles it.

Not every study follows the same path, and some studies (observational studies, device studies) have no phase.

Are results available for this study?

The study is completed, but results are not available in the source record. That does not mean the treatment did or did not work.

How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?

The record lists no contact. The official record names the sponsor, who can be asked directly. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.

What does the primary outcome measure?

Acceptability of ACT as measured by focus-group discussions with clients and staff; number of participants withdrawing from study (time frame: 9 weeks). The study lists 3 primary outcomes in all. It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.

Where can I read the original study information?
Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?

No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.

How often is this information updated?

AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 10 Dec 2015.

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