Recruiting

HOBSCOTCH

Sponsor:

Kessler Foundation

Code:

NCT04240977

Conditions

Refractory Epilepsy

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18 - 65

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Interventions

HOBSCOTCH: "Home-Based Self-Management and Cognitive Training Changes Lives"

Study Details

Brief summary:

The purpose of this study is to see whether a phone-intervention called HOBSCOTCH will improve health, daily functioning and quality of life among patients with refractory epilepsy. HOBSCOTCH stands for "Home-Based Self-Management and Cognitive Training Changes Lives." This study will also help to find the best ways of integrating this telehealth intervention to routine clinic use.

Conditions

Refractory Epilepsy

Study ID

NCT04240977

Start date

Jun 1, 2019

Status verified date

Feb, 2021

Completion date

Jun 30, 2021

Anticipated

Primary completion date

Jun 30, 2021

Anticipated

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18 - 65

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Patient is able to read and speak English.
  • Patient has a reliable telephone connection and a private place they can use during the course of this study
  • They do not have any treatment or intervention plan in place for the next 6 months. They may be on an anti-epileptic drug regimen that has not been changed in the past 3 months.

Study Design

Enrollment

30 participants

Anticipated

Intervention Model

Single group

Primary purpose

Supportive Care

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Arms

experimental: Treatment Group

Interventions

HOBSCOTCH: "Home-Based Self-Management and Cognitive Training Changes Lives"

Home-Based Self-Management and Cognitive Training Changes Lives (HOBSCOTCH) is a novel phone-based intervention that is enables acquisition of cognitive skills in line with problem solving therapy (PST), and is well suited for PWRE who have failed all other treatment alternatives. Sessions #2 through #7 focus on building patient's awareness for their own day-to-day memory problems, brainstorming, implementing and reviewing the outcomes of potential solutions they generate themselves using the PST framework. In each of these sessions, providers will assist patients in generating alternative solutions, in thinking through what the implementation of each strategy would entail, and in helping them review outcomes for adopted strategies to refine their approach for optimized adoption and generalization.

Primary outcome measure

  • Change in Quality of Life in Epilepsy - 31 score [ Time Frame: baseline & 8-10 weeks after baseline ]

Central Contacts and Locations

Locations

Kessler Foundation

Recruiting

East Hanover, New Jersey, United States, 07936

Contacts

Erkut Kucukboyaci, Doctoral

973-324-8391ekucukboyaci@kesslerfoundation.org

Nancy Moore, Masters

9733248450

Principal Investigator:

Erkut Kucukboyaci, PhD

More Information

Sponsor

Kessler Foundation

Last update posted

Feb 4, 2021

Last verified

Feb, 2021

Keywords

  • Refractory epilepsy, self-management
  • Quality of life

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-09-10. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by Kessler Foundation on 2021-02-04.