Acquired brain injury, Traumatic brain injury, Cognitive Rehabilitation, Children, Adolescents, Niet-aangeboren hersenletsel, Traumatisch hersenletsel, Cognitieve revalidatie, Kinderen, Jongeren, Adolescenten
Conditions
Interventions
All participating children and adolescents will receive care as usual. In addition, participants in the intervention group will be offered a 6–week CBCR program targeting a wide range of cognitive fun
Sponsors
Maastricht University
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: 1. Age between 8 and 18 years; 2. Diagnosed with ABI (e.g., traumatic brain injury, brain tumour, stroke, encephalitis, meningitis, and hypoxia); 3. At least 6 months post injury; 4. Experiencing problems with at least one of the to be trained cognitive functions (i.e., attention, working memory, or executive functioning); 5. Patient in a rehabilitation centre or student at a specialized school; 6. Able to control the arrow keys of a keyboard and/or to use a computer mouse and visually able to perceive a complete screen and to adequately process the stimuli of the computer games and the neuropsychological tests;
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: 1. General level of intelligence lower than 80; 2. Co-morbidity: extreme sensibility for visual stimuli, epilepsy, depression, or other health complaints or learning disabilities which can negatively influence the participation in the present study; 3. Previously present brain damage (i.e., already suffered a brain damage some years ago) or central nervous system disease (e.g., epilepsy); 4. Has previously trained with a CBCR program
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Three cognitive tests have been selected as primary outcome measures to assess change in attention (score on d2), working memory (score on Corsi Block-Tapping Test), and executive functioning (score on Concept Shifting Task). The main study parameters are the change in performance from baseline measurement (T0) to post intervention measurement (T1, i.e., 6 to 8 weeks after T0) and the change from T1 to T2 (follow-up after 3 months) on each of these three tests. | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Cognitive functioning: 1. Intelligence: WISC-III short form 2. Attention: Coding (WISC-III); Five to Fifteen questionnaire (parent and teacher version) 3. Working memory: Digit Span (WISC-III) 4. Executive functioning: Stop Signal Reaction Task; Verbal Fluency; Behavioral Rating Inventory of Executive Functioning (parent version). Psychosocial functioning: 1. Participation: Child and Adolescent Scale of Participation (parent and child version) 2. Family functioning: Family Assessment Device - General Functioning (parent version) 3. Quality of life: Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory - Generic core scale and Multidimensional fatigue scales (parent and child version). | — |
Contacts
Public ContactChristine Resch
Maastricht University - Department of Neuropsychology and PsychopharmacologyFaculty of Psychology and NeuroscienceAddress: Universiteitssingel 40, 6229 ER Maastricht
Outcome results
None listed