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Study NCT ID:
NCT03709732
Status:
COMPLETED
Last Update Posted:
2022-04-27
First Post:
2018-10-15
Is NOT Gene Therapy:
True
Has Adverse Events:
False
Brief Title:
Living With Spinal Cord Injury.
Sponsor:
St. Olavs Hospital
Organization:
Study Overview
Official Title:
Register Research Combined With Health Surveys and Patient Data, to Assess Work Participation and Quality of Life Among Persons With Spinal Cord Injury and Their Caregivers
Status:
COMPLETED
Status Verified Date:
2022-04
Last Known Status:
None
Delayed Posting:
No
If Stopped, Why?:
Not Stopped
Has Expanded Access:
False
If Expanded Access, NCT#:
N/A
Has Expanded Access, NCT# Status:
N/A
Acronym:
None
Brief Summary:
A Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) often drastically disrupts the lives of affected patients and their relatives and caregivers. This observational study will provide new knowledge on how patients and their family caregivers cope in the first years after injury in terms of work inclusion, participation, care giver burden and quality of life. This project will utilize Norwegian spinal cord injury quality register data and link clinical individual data from the quality register to national administrative data on employment and social insurance benefits.
Detailed Description:
All individuals in the Norwegian Spinal Cord Injury Registry (NorSCIR) in the period 2011-2017, meaning that they have already given their consent, will be asked to participate. They will be sent a letter with information about the study including a questionnaire.
In the letter they will also be asked, if they agree, to forward an invitation letter to their closest caregiver addressed to "the main family caregiver".
Main family caregiver will be defined as persons who are providing unpaid assistance and support to the person with a SCI. The letter for the caregiver with information about the study, includes a questionnaire. All patients in the NorSCIR and their main caregivers (after consent) will be linked to national administrative register to provide data on social insurance benefits, education and work.
Control groups from the general population will be selected and identified in the national registries (for both the patient cohort and caregiver cohort). These control groups will be used to compare the level of work/benefit over time for patients and caregivers with that of the general population. Also, within-person approaches will be used to assess the impact of the injury, comparing each participant's status in the period after injury with their own status at a time period before injury.
20.04.2022 A relatively low proportion of family caregivers responded to the questionnaire (N = 73). Only 61 gave their consent to link their data to data from Statistics Norway and the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration. We had, therefore, to reconsider this part of the project. We have now concluded that the caregiver population is too small to link their information to the national administrative registers and to make a comparison with a control group from the general population. A control group for caregivers was therefore not needed anymore.
In the letter they will also be asked, if they agree, to forward an invitation letter to their closest caregiver addressed to "the main family caregiver".
Main family caregiver will be defined as persons who are providing unpaid assistance and support to the person with a SCI. The letter for the caregiver with information about the study, includes a questionnaire. All patients in the NorSCIR and their main caregivers (after consent) will be linked to national administrative register to provide data on social insurance benefits, education and work.
Control groups from the general population will be selected and identified in the national registries (for both the patient cohort and caregiver cohort). These control groups will be used to compare the level of work/benefit over time for patients and caregivers with that of the general population. Also, within-person approaches will be used to assess the impact of the injury, comparing each participant's status in the period after injury with their own status at a time period before injury.
20.04.2022 A relatively low proportion of family caregivers responded to the questionnaire (N = 73). Only 61 gave their consent to link their data to data from Statistics Norway and the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration. We had, therefore, to reconsider this part of the project. We have now concluded that the caregiver population is too small to link their information to the national administrative registers and to make a comparison with a control group from the general population. A control group for caregivers was therefore not needed anymore.
Study Oversight
Has Oversight DMC:
False
Is a FDA Regulated Drug?:
False
Is a FDA Regulated Device?:
False
Is an Unapproved Device?:
None
Is a PPSD?:
None
Is a US Export?:
None
Is an FDA AA801 Violation?: