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Cognitive Rehabilitation of OIF/OEF Veterans With Cognitive Disorder
In Brief
A clinical study evaluating Cognitive Strategy Training and Placebo comparison group for Cognition Disorders. Completed, enrolled 128 participants across 4 sites.
Detailed Summary
The number of OEF/OIF veterans seeking care and rehabilitation services within the VA Health Care System is increasing rapidly. The cognitive effects of MTBI are clinically significant and can adversely affect a veteran's ability to reintegrate into civilian life, return to duty, succeed in competitive employment, or function independently. The primary product of the proposed study would be an empirically validated, manualized, cognitive rehabilitation intervention for OIF/OIF veterans with cognitive disorders. The group treatment modality has the virtue of efficiency and a manualized treatment approach would allow wide-ranging application throughout the VHA system. As such, the proposed study is likely to have a significant effect on the quality and effectiveness of rehabilitative services being offered to our returning soldiers with combat-related MTBI and cognitive impairment.
Study Details
Timeline
Interventions
Cognitive Strategy Training will consist of weekly 120-minute group sessions for 10 weeks.
Participants in the experimental group will receive the Cognitive strategy intervention during the first ten weeks of their participation in the study, whereas comparison group participants will continue to receive usual care (no cognitive strategy intervention) during their participation in the study (but will be offered cognitive strategy intervention after the end of the study).