Promoting the Psychological Health of Women With SCI: A Virtual World Intervention

Status:	Recruiting
Conditions:	Hospital, Orthopedic
Therapuetic Areas:	Orthopedics / Podiatry, Other
Healthy:	No
Age Range:	18 - Any
Updated:	1/27/2019
Start Date:	August 1, 2018
End Date:	September 30, 2021
Contact:	Rachel L Markley, MPH
Email:	Zest@memorialhermann.org
Phone:	713-797-7570

The purpose of this project is to test the efficacy of an internet-based psychological health
enhancement program for women with spinal cord injury. The intervention will occur in Second
Life (SL), which is an online virtual word simulator with a group of women with spinal cord
injury.

Inclusion Criteria:

- have a traumatic spinal cord injury

- be at least one year post injury

- be able to speak and read English (to participate in the group intervention and
complete study questionnaires in English).

- have access to a phone, an email account, and a computer and high-speed Internet
connection that meets minimum SL computing requirements.

Exclusion Criteria:

- have a cognitive impairment that significantly limits their ability to give informed
consent, participate in the intervention, or complete study assessments as determined
by an inability to correctly answer questions on a comprehension of consent
questionnaire

- have a significant visual or hearing impairment that would prohibit their ability to
participate in the virtual intervention

- report active suicidality

- live in institutions. Individuals living in community-based group and adult foster
homes will be invited to participate.

We found this trial at

sites

University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

7000 Fannin St
Houston, Texas 77030

(713) 500-4472