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The Parkwood Pacing and Planning™ App

Acquired Brain Injury

In efforts to assist people who have had a concussion (mild traumatic brain injury), the Parkwood Pacing and Planning™ app has been developed and tested and will be released to the public. The app uses a point system where users have a daily point maximum assigned based on symptom severity with daily activities (recorded by the users). Users can then schedule their daily activities based on their allowed points. The goal is to help users with symptom self-management by facilitating activity planning and pacing.

Patients and clinicians have provided positive feedback on the initial version of the app. Using this as a foundation, the investigators envision enhancing the app to provide a more personalized user experience and to enable further discovery and innovations in the recovery from concussion. This will be accomplished through data analytics and machine-learning techniques, informed by the results of a large-scale research trial. This strategy will be used to customize the point system to facilitate the user with pacing and planning.

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Participation Requirements

  • Sex:

    ALL

  • Eligible Ages:

    18 and up

Participation Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Experienced a mild traumatic brain injury/concussion
2. Disclosure of mechanism of injury and whether they were diagnosed with a mild traumatic brain injury/concussion by a registered health care practitioner
3. 18 yeas of age or older
4. Access to a smartphone or tablet
5. Able to read, write, and understand English

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Did not experience a mild traumatic brain injury/concussion
2. Unwilling to disclose mechanism of injury and whether they were diagnosed with a mild traumatic brain injury/concussion
3. Under 18 years of age
4. No access to a smartphone or tablet
5. Inability to read, write, and understand English

Study Location

Parkwood Institute
Parkwood Institute
London, Ontario
Canada

Contact Study Team

Primary Contact

Dalton Wolfe, PhD

[email protected]
519-646-6100
Study Sponsored By
London Health Sciences Centre Research Institute and Lawson Research Institute of St. Joseph's
Participants Required
More Information
Study ID: NCT03957343