Paediatric goal management training in patients with acquired brain injury: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Compromised integrity of the brain due to paediatric acquired brain injury (pABI) has been associated with cognitive impairment, particularly executive dysfunction, in addition to somatic and emotional symptoms and reduced everyday function. Goal Management Training (GMT) is a cognitive rehabilitation intervention for improving executive function (EF) that has received empirical support in studies of adults with ABI. The purpose of the present study is to determine the efficacy of a recently developed paediatric version of GMT (pGMT) for children and adolescents with ABI and reported executive dysfunction.

Methods and analysis

This study protocol describes a parallel randomised controlled trial including allocation concealment and assessor blinding. Eighty survi

SUBMITTER: Hypher RE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6688684 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature