None listed
Conditions
Brief summary
People with epilepsy consistently report the importance of lifestyle factors that can predispose a seizure. Despite this, lifestyle education is not a standard feature of patient care in clinical practice. Using a randomized controlled trial the objectives of this study are– (1) to inform clinical care practice by examining the impact of a Lifestyle Education Intervention (LEEP) on seizure frequency, well being, quality of life and resilience, (2) to provide information related to seizure control and health related quality of life related to lifestyle self-management, (3) assess the acceptability of LEEP to consumers and (4) to translate the package to practice in a sustainable and effective manner. The study will use a randomized controlled trial design to test six hypothesis which are as follows - H1 Lifestyle self-management education for people with epilepsy program (LEEP) will make a difference seizure frequency; H2 LEEP will improve the patient’s experience of subjective wellbeing; H3 LEEP will make a positive difference to resilience scores; H4 LEEP will improve the person’s health related quality of life (HRQoL); H5 LEEP will improve the person’s self management abilities; and H6 LEEP will be acceptable and affordable to people living with epilepsy. The objectives of this study are– (1) to inform clinical care practice by empirically examining the impact of a Lifestyle Education Intervention on seizure frequency, wellbeing, quality of life, self management abilities and resilience in order to reduce frequency of seizures and unplanned emergency department and hospital re-admissions (2) to provide information related to seizure control and health related quality of life, enhancing resilience and self management and (3) to translate the education package to practice in a sustainable and cost effective and acceptable manner.
Interventions
Lifestyle sElf management Education Program (LEEP) is a mobile device application that has three main foci - factual disease related information, providing information related to managing the psychosocial aspects of epilepsy and increasing accessibility of information and support. The participants will complete four (4) education modules across four (4) weeks (i.e. one module per week). Each module should take participants a total of 30 minutes to complete. Information related to participant's
Lifestyle sElf management Education Program (LEEP) is a mobile device application that has three main foci - factual disease related information, providing information related to managing the psychosocial aspects of epilepsy and increasing accessibility of information and support. The participants will complete four (4) education modules across four (4) weeks (i.e. one module per week). Each module should take participants a total of 30 minutes to complete. Information related to participant's adherence to using the intervention will be reported through the application to the research team. The participants will also be receiving a weekly 'check in' telephone call by study staff to see how they are progressing with the program. Participants are required to complete each module weekly over the four weeks, however will have access to the intervention for a total of 8 weeks in the event that they may need extra time to complete modules.
Sponsors
St Vincent's Private Hospital Melbourne
Study design
Allocation
Randomised controlled trial
Intervention model
Parallel
Primary purpose
Educational / counselling / training
Masking
Blinded (masking used) (Caregiver, Investigator)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
Participants will be patients who have a diagnosis of the following types of epilepsy - temporal lobe epilepsy, frontal lobe epilepsy, parietal lobe epilepsy, occipital lobe epilepsy, symptomatic generalized epilepsy, idiopathic (genetic) generalised epilepsy, and reflex epilepsy. Additionally, participants can be of any sex, cultural background, and educational background.
Exclusion criteria
Inability to give informed consent and inability to understand English, other types of brain injury that could impact on the person’s ability to provide informed consent or ability to participate in the study.
Outcome results
None listed