POWER: family-centered rehabilitation

POWER: A multicenter controlled trial of the effect of Family Group Conferences for patients with amputation, acquired brain injury and spinal cord injury and their relatives

Status

Active, not recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Interventional

Source

NL-OMON

Registry ID

NL-OMON22723

Enrollment

328

Registered

2016-02-09

Start date

2016-04-08

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2024-02-28

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Conditions

Leg amputation (beenamputatie), acquired brain injury (niet-aangeboren hersenletsel) and spinal cord injury (dwarslaesie)

Interventions

Patients and informal caregivers in the intervention centres who score low on self-efficacy (high-risk families) will receive the Family Group Conference, consisting of three meetings organised by soc

Eligibility

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: - Recent onset of spinal cord injury, acquired brain injury, or (leg) amputation - Expected clinical admission stay in the rehabilitation centre of at least 4 weeks - Age at least 18 years - For intervention participation: the patient and/or the informal caregiver has a below-average self-efficacy score (46 or lower on the ALCOS-12)

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: - Full recovery or nearly full recovery of the patient is expected - No expected return to the home situation - It is expected that outpatient treatment is in a different rehabilitation centre than the clinical treatment - Patients cannot mention an informal caregiver / 'significant other' - No informed consent of both the patient and the informal caregiver - High degree of cognitive or intellectual problems (unreliable measurements); - Participation in other intervention research. - Limited life expectancy due to metastases

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
Disability-management self-efficacyv Participation	—

Secondary

Measure	Time frame
Mood problems, burden of care giving, caregiver mastery, family functioning, life satisfaction, pain, fatigue, general health, mood, experienced continuity of care, care empowerment, provided assistance to patient / assistance from social network, time expenditure by social workers and psychologists and time required from social workers to organize and support FFC’s, care satisfaction, demographic factors, condition specific factors, functional status factors, personality, coping, psychological resources, social network, perceived social support	—

Measure

Time frame

Mood problems, burden of care giving, caregiver mastery, family functioning, life satisfaction, pain, fatigue, general health, mood, experienced continuity of care, care empowerment, provided assistance to patient / assistance from social network, time expenditure by social workers and psychologists and time required from social workers to organize and support FFC’s, care satisfaction, demographic factors, condition specific factors, functional status factors, personality, coping, psychological resources, social network, perceived social support

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Contacts

Public ContactEline Scholten

Center of Excellence for Rehabilitation Medicine, UMC Utrecht Brain Center, University Medical Center Utrecht, and De Hoogstraat Rehabilitation, Utrecht, the Netherlands

e.scholten@dehoogstraat.nl030-2561328

Outcome results

None listed

Source: NL-OMON (via WHO ICTRP)