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Attempting to return to everyday life after a burn injury can be difficult, stressful, and emotionally challenging. While traditional rehabilitation strategies for burn survivors focus on physical recovery, the Life Impact Burn Recovery Evaluation (LIBRE) focuses on the impact burn injuries have on social life. The LIBRE Journey Project ...

mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language: EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">The aim of this randomized controlled trial is to determine whether a virtual-environment home rehabilitation program improves functional outcomes for adults discharged to home after a burn injury. ...

We propose inclusion of early clinical hospital events to better understand the effects of early injury and in-hospital events on functional outcomes and risk factors for recovery. Our hypothesis for this project is that events after a burn injury related to health care delivery impact functional recovery of patients ...

This site-specific study is aimed at improving awareness of one's emotions after TBI in the hopes of improving emotional control and decrease problems with anxiety, anger, irritability, and aggression. Reduced emotion control is a common and often chronic problem after TBI. Although impaired emotion control is a multifaceted problem, ...

Impairments in new learning and memory (NLM) are among the most common and disabling cognitive sequelae following TBI and such deficits have been shown to exert substantial negative impact on everyday life, including occupational and social functioning. Despite these findings, few studies have examined the efficacy of treatments ...

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) has been conceptualized as a chronic health condition, warranting self-advocacy for health management services across the lifespan. Successful self-advocacy requires a combination of cognitive and communication skills (problem solving, organization, negotiation, etc), which may be impaired following TBI. This project focuses on developing and testing ...

The aims of the study are to: (1) evaluate the short and long-term efficacy of two structured outpatient intervention programs, Resilience and Adjustment Intervention (RAI) vs. RAI with follow up booster sessions (RAI+) on resilience; (2) evaluate the short and long-term impact of intervention on emotional well-being and postinjury ...

This trial will capitalize on longstanding collaborations with the Minnesota Brain Injury Alliance (MN BIA) and Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) to address the ineffective connection to specialized medical and community resources in the transition from hospital to community-based care, limited access to TBI experts, and variable primary care provider ...

Missing an early connection to services after TBI is a common need identified by individuals hospitalized for TBI and their families, indicating a lack of system capacity, which increases risk for poor outcomes while adding to personal and societal costs. Explosive developments in communication technology have brought telemedicine to ...

Importance: Weight gain is common among people with TBI and greatly increases the risk of chronic diseases such as diabetes, metabolic syndrome, pulmonary and heart disease. Approaches to weight-loss are lacking, yet necessary, due to the unique physiological and cognitive needs of persons with TBI. There is evidence that ...

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of an adapted telehealth-based, health and wellness lifestyle program (POWERS-TBI) on promoting healthy lifestyle behaviors and improving self-efficacy for healthy activities such as amount of physical activity, dietary/food intake, mental stimulation and activity, substance use, mindfulness/spirituality, social relationships, and/or ...

To determine the efficacy of a manualized group intervention to develop resilience and social support in family members of persons with TBI. A randomized controlled trial (RCT) with three arms (five 2-hour sessions, one 5-hour session, and waitlist control) will be tested. The central premise is that building resilience ...

This study will compare a Collaborative Care approach to pain treatment with the usual care approach to reduce the impact of pain in adults who have had a TBI who have chronic pain, including headache. A care manager works with each patient and his/her providers to create a treatment ...

This project will test the effects of Behavioral Activation (BA) therapy on depression and/ or anxiety in community-dwelling people with chronic moderate to severe TBI. In the main treatment condition of interest, participants will receive 8 weekly sessions of BA, 6 in person and 2 by phone. As in ...

This project’s goal is to understand the barriers and facilitators to managing Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) as a chronic condition among a diverse group of individuals utilizing a mixed-method, exploratory sequential approach. We will recruit 130 medically confirmed and non-medically confirmed individuals with TBI and caregivers, and 20 clinicians ...

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy an Online Emotion Regulation Intervention (EmReg) following TBI. EmReg is a comprehensive, skill-based intervention, informed by theories of emotion and emotional regulation, cognitive-behavioral therapy, and neuropsychological theories of frontal lobe functioning. It aims to increase emotional awareness and self-regulation, ...

This study is investigating whether treatment with Sumatriptan is effective in treating post-traumatic headache pain in people who have had a mild, moderate or severe TBI. Sumatriptan has been FDA approved since 1991 and can be prescribed to treat migraine headache in the general population. This study will also ...

In the current study we sought to describe the prevalence and characteristics of PTH in the first five years after TBI, to compare those who report PTH with those who do not, and to examine possible risk factors for the development of PTH. Individuals with mostly moderate-to-severe TBI were ...