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Peer Mentoring for Persons With Spinal Cord Injury (SCI)

This study has been completed.

Sponsored by: University of Wisconsin, Madison
Information provided by: University of Wisconsin, Madison
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00205205
  Purpose

A peer mentoring program for persons with SCI was developed. Individuals who experienced SCI in the past and have adapted well functionally were asked to serve as mentors for individuals with newly-acquired SCI. These individuals undergo volunteer and peer mentoring training prior to mentoring activities. They are a subset of the study participants. We are tracking their satisfaction with life, positive and negative affect, life adjustment, depression, and social support over time. We hypothesize that measures of adjustment will become more positive as involvement as a mentor increases. The second subset of study participants are the individuals with newly-acquired SCI. They complete a baseline assessment of the measures listed above and then at 6 months, one year, and two years after match with a mentor. We also collect information about the quantity and quality of the mentoring sessions from both the mentor and mentee. We hypothesize that the mentee's adjustment will be positively influenced by the number and quality of the mentoring sessions. Due to the relatively small number of SCI per year in our program, we opted to offer the mentoring program to all individuals with newly acquired SCI, thus there is no control group.


Condition Intervention
Spinal Cord Injury
Behavioral: peer mentoring

MedlinePlus related topics:   Depression    Spinal Cord Injuries   

U.S. FDA Resources

Study Type:   Interventional
Study Design:   Treatment, Non-Randomized, Open Label, Active Control, Single Group Assignment, Efficacy Study
Official Title:   Peer Mentoring for Persons With Spinal Cord Injury: Program Satisfaction and Outcome for Mentor/Mentee

Further study details as provided by University of Wisconsin, Madison:

Primary Outcome Measures:
  • satisfaction with life, positive and negative affect, life adjustment, depression, and social support

Secondary Outcome Measures:
  • is the mentee's adjustment positively influenced by the number and quality of the mentoring sessions

  Eligibility
Ages Eligible for Study:   18 Years and older
Genders Eligible for Study:   Both
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:   No

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

  • experienced a SCI

Exclusion Criteria:

  • no severe traumatic brain injury
  • no severe psychiatric disturbance
  Contacts and Locations

Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00205205

Locations
United States, Wisconsin
University of Wisconsin    
      Madison, Wisconsin, United States, 53792

Sponsors and Collaborators
University of Wisconsin, Madison

Investigators
Principal Investigator:     Jack Sherman     University of Wisconsin, Madison    
  More Information


Study ID Numbers:   M-2003-0505
First Received:   September 13, 2005
Last Updated:   June 13, 2008
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:   NCT00205205
Health Authority:   United States: Institutional Review Board

Study placed in the following topic categories:
Spinal Cord Injuries
Spinal Cord Diseases
Wounds and Injuries
Disorders of Environmental Origin
Central Nervous System Diseases
Trauma, Nervous System

Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Nervous System Diseases

ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on October 16, 2008




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