AIM's Writing for Healing: A Workshop for Individuals Living With Paralysis
Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phaseNot listed
Trial typeObservational
Biological sexAll
Age18+
SponsorUniversity of Alabama at Birmingham
About this trial
The UAB Institute for Arts In Medicine (AIM) is currently implementing an expressive emotional writing pilot project for adults with paralysis caused by neurological conditions such as traumatic head or spinal cord injury.
Eligibility criteria
Qualifiers
Age 18 or older with paralysis living in the community
limb paralysis resulting from a traumatic event/accident or neurological disease (e.g., spinal cord injury, head injury, stroke, multiple sclerosis, Transverse myelitis, poliomyelitis, peripheral neuropathy, Parkinson's disease, ALS, botulism, and Guillain-Barré syndrome etc) happened after childhood
a non-traumatic spinal cord injury may be caused by arthritis, cancer, inflammation, infections or disk degeneration of the spine
caregivers of people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
Disqualifiers
known maladaptive behavioral patterns, exhibition of overt psychotic symptoms (e.g., presence of hallucinations, delusions, or thought disorders)
congenital (e.g., spinal bifida, cerebral palsy)
Trial design
Treatments tested in this trial
- Not listed
Trial groups
160 Participants
are grouped into 1 trial groupSponsors and collaborators
Source ClinicalTrials.gov