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Collaborative Care in Posttraumatic Epilepsy

United States40 participantsStarted 2023-04-30

Plain-language summary

The purpose of this research is to evaluate a 6 month change in quality of life in subjects who receive collaborative care calls compared to those subjects who receive usual neurology care. This is a 2-site trial comparing a 24 week neurology-based collaborative care program to usual neurology care among a total of 60 adults with post-traumatic epilepsy.

Who can participate

Age range18 Years

SexALL

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Inclusion criteria

✓. Epilepsy diagnosis based on neurology clinician impression of diagnosis or electroencephalogram (EEG) findings (EEG findings: presence of interictal epileptiform discharges on EEG or ictal EEG recording of seizure definitively documenting epilepsy diagnosis)
✓. History of at least mild traumatic brain injury based on the MIRECC (Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center) TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury) screening instrument or verified TBI history based on MIRECC research database
✓. TBI pre-dated onset of epilepsy (NINDS post-traumatic epilepsy screening form)

What they're measuring

Emotional Subscale-Change in Quality of Life in Epilepsy-31(QOLIE-31)

Timeframe: Baseline through Month 6

Trial details

NCT IDNCT05353452

SponsorWake Forest University Health Sciences

Sponsor typeOTHER

Study typeINTERVENTIONAL

Primary completion2026-05

Contact for this trial

Heidi M. Munger Clary, MD, MPH

336-716-7110 hmungerc@wakehealth.edu

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