NCT00205205

Peer Mentoring for Persons With Spinal Cord Injury (SCI)

Completed NA Last updated 5 October 2015

What this trial tests

NA trial testing peer mentoring in Spinal Cord Injury. Completed.

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	University of Wisconsin, Madison
Phase	NA
Status	Completed
Study type	INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation	non randomized
Design	single group
Masking	none
Primary purpose	treatment
Sites	1 location across United States

Drugs / interventions tested

• peer mentoring

Conditions studied

• Spinal Cord Injury — all drugs for Spinal Cord Injury →

Sponsor

University of Wisconsin, Madison

Who can join

18 and older, any sex, with Spinal Cord Injury. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

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.

Publications & conference data

1 peer-reviewed publication reference this trial (live from Europe PMC):

1. A quantitative analysis of clinical trial designs in spinal cord injury based on ICCP guidelines.
   Sorani MD, Beattie MS, Bresnahan JC. · · 2012 · cited 4× · PMID 22369673 · DOI 10.1089/neu.2011.2162