None listed
Conditions
Brief summary
The purpose of this study is to investigate the brain signalling in sleep after TBI. We want to know if sleep problems improve as time passes after the brain injury, and whether the recovery of sleep, sleep quality, and cognition are related. It is also possible that some patients after a severe TBI have breathing problems in sleep. It is possible that breathing problems in sleep could affect their recovery. The sleep study will include monitoring for breathing disorders during sleep.
Interventions
This is an observational study of sleep in traumatic brain injury (TBI) in the inpatient rehabilitation setting. The study will seek to study sleep fragmentation and its recovery over time in TBI. The study will also examine the effect of sleep fragmentation and self-reported sleep quality on cognition, behaviour, mood, disability and life satisfaction.
Polysomonography (PSG) with electroencephalography (EEG) assessments with clinical assessments will be repeated fortnightly for up to 6 weeks
This is an observational study of sleep in traumatic brain injury (TBI) in the inpatient rehabilitation setting. The study will seek to study sleep fragmentation and its recovery over time in TBI. The study will also examine the effect of sleep fragmentation and self-reported sleep quality on cognition, behaviour, mood, disability and life satisfaction. Polysomonography (PSG) with electroencephalography (EEG) assessments with clinical assessments will be repeated fortnightly for up to 6 weeks following post-traumatic amnesia (PTA) resolution. If PSG with EEG is not feasible, an overnight pulse oximetry will be offered.
Sponsors
Royal Rehab Brain Injury Unit
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
16 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
Age 16 years and over at injury; treated in a non-paediatric healthcare system; a blunt head trauma with a clear description of injury for head trauma; current inpatient in a public hospital; neuroimaging with CT and, or, MRI brain performed at 4 weeks or less following injury and images or reports are available for viewing.
Exclusion criteria
Restless or disruptive behaviour; psychiatric instability.
Outcome results
None listed