Additional identifiers
EudraCT number
ClinicalTrials.gov number
Protocol/serial number
N0259174356
Study information
Scientific title
Education to increase self efficacy for inpatients having rehabilitation after monophasic neurological disability
Acronym
Study hypothesis
It has been shown that success in rehabilitation is influenced by patient motivation and level of participation in therapy sessions. Self-efficacy refers to ones belief that one can achieve a particular task. The higher the patients self-efficacy, the greater the amount of effort he/she will dedicate to adopting and maintaining health behaviour changes and treatment programmes. We therefore hypothesise that an intervention which enhances a patients self-efficacy in their ability to achieve the goals chosen on the neurological rehabilitation unit would improve participation and outcome in rehabilitation. Our previous work with patients and staff suggest that patient (and carer) education would increase self efficacy, and two popular forms of education in our survey were a group educational session and a video showing the course and progress of previous patients. We plan to assess the impact of these interventions on self efficacy and other variables, for inpatients having rehabilitation following monophasic neurological disability.
Ethics approval
Not provided at time of registration
Study design
Randomised controlled trial
Primary study design
Interventional
Secondary study design
Randomised controlled trial
Trial setting
Not specified
Trial type
Not Specified
Patient information sheet
Condition
Nervous System Diseases: Monophasic neurological disability
Intervention
Data Collected (includes standard non-research data already collected):
1. Demographic details including educational qualifications
2. Age on leaving full time education
3. Diagnoses
4. FIM at admission and discharge
Randomisation:
Patients will be randomly allocated to one of two groups:
1. Education session, NRU video
2. Educational talk, general video
Concealed randomisation will be achieved using sealed, numbered, opaque envelopes kept in a locked separate location by an independent research assistant who carries out the randomisation and conveys patient allocation information to the trialist. All patients will receive usual practice care from the date of admission to the NRU until they have been randomised to a study group.
Interventions: all patients receive a copy of the NRU patient information manual.
Patients and carers randomised to the education session will be invited to attend a group education session run by a physician (CAY), a medical student, and an ex-patient volunteer (hence termed co-researcher), within 2 weeks of admission.
The education session covers:
1. Definition of rehabilitation and the aims of the unit, its staff and ward routines
2. Stages of rehabilitation
Patients and carers in the control group will be invited to attend a group educational talk run by a physician (SpR) and a medical student within 2 weeks of admission.
The control educational talk covers:-
1. Traumatic brain injury epidemiology, common causes, types, common disabilities, prevention
2. Stroke epidemiology, risk factors, types, common disabilities, prevention
Patients and carers randomised to the NRU video or control video will be invited to watch these respective videos within 3 weeks of admission.
The NRU video shows interviews with volunteer ex-inpatients from the NRU, describing their experience of rehabilitation.
The control video is a documentary of recovery from head injury produced for television of equivalent length to the NRU video.
#1-5 are patient-completed questionnaires (completed monthly), #6 involves a brief interview (weekly), #7 is part of standard ward data monitoring, and #8-9 are staff questionnaires. #6, 8 & 9 would be collected each week by medical students involved in the study.
Patient co-researchers, patient involvement in research design and any patient risk.
This research includes collaboration with disabled people who have been previous inpatients in the NRU.
A patient co-researcher will assist with the education session, contributing their experience of NRU routines, stages of rehabilitation etc. They will not be expected to describe their own medical history or convey any personal information.
Patient volunteers are interviewed and filmed to produce a video. No footage from their hospital admission will be shown. Their medical information will be included at their discretion to illustrate their story as they wish to tell it. No names or identifiable information will be included. Carers will participate if they and the patient chooses.
It should be noted that several of our patients have been interviewed by national or local press by choice.
Co-researchers will be invited to participate following discussion between their consultant (CAY), the NRU psychologist and the key worker, if they recover without significant cognitive or psychological morbidity and are able to communicate verbally. To avoid any charge of obligation to participate between patient and consultant, any co-researcher, or individual who declines to be a co-researcher, will be offered transfer for follow up care to Dr Pinder, consultant in rehabilitation medicine, whom they will already have met on the NRU. In fact, our preliminary work described below shows that patients are spontaneously suggesting involvement in patient education or production of a video.
In designing this study we have drawn on a) qualitative interviews with patients, staff and carers [EC127.02; EC04/Q1501/77] & b) requests and suggestions made by patients and carers out with research studies.
The inconvenience and risks to participants are time spent and boredom attending the educational sessions and watching the videos.
All participants will receive feedback of the study results at the close of the project.
Timetable
Months 1-5: pilot
Months 6-20: data collection
Months 21-24:analysis
There will be an interim analysis at M12.
Intervention type
Other
Phase
Not Specified
Drug names
Primary outcome measure
1. Liverpool self-efficacy scale
2. General self efficacy measure
3. Hospital anxiety and depression scale
4. Patient and carer feedback questionnaire
5. VAS scales on confidence and recovery
6. Interviews on structured day, participation and goal setting, health promotion, use of games room/computer room/groups
7. Goals achieved and variance
8. Participation in therapy
9. Practice with nursing staff
Secondary outcome measures
Not provided at time of registration
Overall trial start date
01/02/2006
Overall trial end date
01/02/2008
Reason abandoned (if study stopped)
Eligibility
Participant inclusion criteria
1. Adult patients with any monophasic disabling neurological condition admitted to the NRU, and their carer(s) or next of kin providing the patient wishes
2. Informed consent
Participant type
Patient
Age group
Adult
Gender
Both
Target number of participants
Not provided at time of registration
Participant exclusion criteria
1. Receptive aphasia (shortened form of FAST)
2. Cognitive impairment (MMSE)
3. Unable to understand English
4. Corrected visual acuity 6/36 or worse
Recruitment start date
01/02/2006
Recruitment end date
01/02/2008
Locations
Countries of recruitment
United Kingdom
Trial participating centre
The Walton Centre for Neurology and Neurosurgery
Liverpool
L9 7LJ
United Kingdom
Sponsor information
Organisation
Record Provided by the NHSTCT Register - 2006 Update - Department of Health
Sponsor details
The Department of Health
Richmond House
79 Whitehall
London
SW1A 2NL
United Kingdom
+44 (0)20 7307 2622
dhmail@doh.gsi.org.uk
Sponsor type
Government
Website
Funders
Funder type
Government
Funder name
The Walton Centre for Neurology and Neurosurgery NHS Trust (UK)
Alternative name(s)
Funding Body Type
Funding Body Subtype
Location
Results and Publications
Publication and dissemination plan
Not provided at time of registration
Intention to publish date
Participant level data
Not provided at time of registration
Basic results (scientific)
Publication list