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A Brief Educational Intervention to Improve TBI Screening Outcomes
In Brief
A Phase 1 clinical trial evaluating TBI handout for TBI. Completed, enrolled 1,236 participants across 5 sites.
Detailed Summary
This research study is designed to learn about Veterans' understanding of mild TBI (traumatic brain injury) and the VA TBI screening process. All OEF/OIF Veterans who come to one of the study-related clinics for TBI screening will be invited to participate. An educational handout on TBI will be given to half of the participants along with their TBI screening. The other half of the participants will have the usual TBI screening without the educational handout. Veterans enrolled in the study will be asked to answer a 5-10 minute research questionnaire. The questionnaire will ask: * About the individual: such as gender and branch of service * About what happened during the TBI screening: such as whether the Veteran had a chance to ask the provider any questions * About the Veteran's understanding of mild TBI: such as whether symptoms of mild TBI are long lasting Veterans who receive the educational handout will be asked specific questions about the handout and its information.
Study Details
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Interventions
The intervention is an educational handout which covers key concepts found in the empirical literature and explicated in the VA/DoD mTBI practice guideline; (1) the meaning of a positive screen, (2) symptoms may be due to another condition, (3) most people with mTBI recover.