Recruiting

Parkwood Pacing

Sponsor:

London Health Sciences Centre Research Institute OR Lawson Research Institute of St. Joseph's

Code:

NCT03957343

Conditions

Acquired Brain Injury

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18+

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Interventions

Pacing and Planning App

Study Details

Brief summary:

In efforts to assist people who have had a concussion (mild traumatic brain injury), the Parkwood Pacing and Planning™ app has been developed and tested and will be released to the public. The app uses a point system where users have a daily point maximum assigned based on symptom severity with daily activities (recorded by the users). Users can then schedule their daily activities based on their allowed points. The goal is to help users with symptom self-management by facilitating activity planning and pacing.

Patients and clinicians have provided positive feedback on the initial version of the app. Using this as a foundation, the investigators envision enhancing the app to provide a more personalized user experience and to enable further discovery and innovations in the recovery from concussion. This will be accomplished through data analytics and machine-learning techniques, informed by the results of a large-scale research trial. This strategy will be used to customize the point system to facilitate the user with pacing and planning.

Conditions

Acquired Brain Injury

Study ID

NCT03957343

Start date

Feb 1, 2021

Status verified date

Mar, 2023

Completion date

Dec, 2026

Anticipated

Primary completion date

Dec, 2026

Anticipated

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18+

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Experienced a mild traumatic brain injury/concussion
2. Disclosure of mechanism of injury and whether they were diagnosed with a mild traumatic brain injury/concussion by a registered health care practitioner
3. 18 yeas of age or older
4. Access to a smartphone or tablet
5. Able to read, write, and understand English

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Did not experience a mild traumatic brain injury/concussion
2. Unwilling to disclose mechanism of injury and whether they were diagnosed with a mild traumatic brain injury/concussion
3. Under 18 years of age
4. No access to a smartphone or tablet
5. Inability to read, write, and understand English

Study Design

Enrollment

200 participants

Anticipated

Intervention Model

Single group

Primary purpose

Supportive Care

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Arms

experimental: Pacing and Planning App

The Pacing and Planning Program is a points system to aid individuals with an acquired brain injury/concussion in planning daily activities and managing symptoms. Activities are allotted various points, depending on the energy the task requires and the symptoms they create. Activities can include anything from grocery shopping to driving or watching TV, etc. Patients are allotted a number of points for a day, and therefore learn to sparingly perform activities. This results in a reduction of symptoms and improved recovery time.

Interventions

Pacing and Planning App

Participants will download and use the Pacing and Planning app through mybrainpacer.ca. The app will be used to track and monitor their daily tasks and symptoms at any time, for as long as they would like to use the app. While using the app, participants will also fill out short assessments, including the Rivermead Post-Concussion Questionnaire once a month (to monitor symptoms) and an overall symptom question once a week (to rate how they feeling in general from a lot better to a lot worse).

Primary outcome measure

  • Symptom changes [ Time Frame: Approximately 3 years ]
  • Changes in general well-being [ Time Frame: Approximately 3 years ]

Central Contacts and Locations

Central contacts

Dalton Wolfe, PhD

5196854292dwolfe@uwo.ca

Marquise Bonn, MSc

5196854292mmayo23@uwo.ca

Locations

Parkwood Institute

Recruiting

London, Ontario, Canada, N6C 5J1

Contacts

Dalton Wolfe, PhD

519-646-6100Dalton.Wolfe@sjhc.london.on.ca

More Information

Sponsor

London Health Sciences Centre Research Institute OR Lawson Research Institute of St. Joseph's

Last update posted

Mar 24, 2023

Last verified

Mar, 2023

Keywords

  • acquired brain injury
  • concussion

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-09-10. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by London Health Sciences Centre Research Institute OR Lawson Research Institute of St. Joseph's on 2023-03-24.