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Conditions
Brief summary
A mixed methods study. A randomised controlled trial with 78 participants adult inpatients with severe acquired brain injury; 40 allocated to routine usual care and 38 to four group therapy sessions over two weeks run by an experienced Occupational Therapist. Outcome measures were collected at baseline and at the completion of the therapy (Barrow Neurological Institute Fatigue Scale, Quality of Life after Brain Injury questionnaire and a Fatigue Knowledge questionnaire assessing knowledge related to the aims of the education modules). Ten patients were interviewed to discuss their fatigue journey and impressions of receiving fatigue management therapy in a group.
Interventions
Those participants allocated to the Fatigue Management Group attended 60 minute sessions twice a week for two weeks until the four modules have been completed. The Fatigue Management Group was set up with the purpose of educating clients about the common effects of fatigue after brain injury. The group was divided into four separate modules, Module 1: What is fatigue? Module 2: Recognising signs of fatigue, Module 3: Understanding your fatigue and Module 4: Healthy living and fatigue. Particip
Those participants allocated to the Fatigue Management Group attended 60 minute sessions twice a week for two weeks until the four modules have been completed. The Fatigue Management Group was set up with the purpose of educating clients about the common effects of fatigue after brain injury. The group was divided into four separate modules, Module 1: What is fatigue? Module 2: Recognising signs of fatigue, Module 3: Understanding your fatigue and Module 4: Healthy living and fatigue. Participants were encouraged to keep a fatigue log to better understand their individual patterns of fatigue and this log was reviewed by the therapist at each session. The group was run by an experienced Occupational Therapist. Those patients allocated to the group did not receive additional fatigue management rehabilitation within their 1 to 1 OT sessions.
Sponsors
Royal Adelaide Hospital
Study design
Allocation
Randomised controlled trial
Intervention model
Parallel
Primary purpose
Treatment
Masking
Blinded (masking used) (Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
Inpatient of brain injury rehabilitation unit. Reported problematic fatigue symptoms. Cognitive ability and behaviors to cope with education modules in a group learning environment.
Exclusion criteria
No problematic fatigue symptoms. Cognitive or behavioral dysfunction that prevented them from coping with education modules in a group learning environment
Outcome results
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