Clinical trial · Observational
AIM's Writing for Healing: A Workshop for Individuals Living With Paralysis
NCT04721717CI-TRIAL-00093378completedClinicalTrials.gov clinicaltrialsProvenance
- Source
- ClinicalTrials.gov
- Retrieved
- Sep 26, 2026
- Layer
- normalized (units and labels harmonized; values unchanged)
- Run
- ING-CLINICALTRIALS-20260926-000001
Summary
Brief summary (as posted)
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.
Conditions
Conditions (4)
Free-text conditions as registered, with the CancerIndex entity they were reconciled to and the match type.
| Condition (as posted) | Mapped entity | Match | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis | — | UNRESOLVED | — |
| Multiple Sclerosis | — | UNRESOLVED | — |
| Spinal Cord Injuries | — | UNRESOLVED | — |
| Transverse Myelitis | — | UNRESOLVED | — |
Interventions
Interventions (0)
Data not yet available
No intervention recorded.
Design
Arms and outcomes
Arms (1)
- label
- People with SCI
- description
- People with paraplegia and quadriplegia People with multiple sclerosis People with transverse myelitis Caregivers of people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)
Primary outcomes (11)
- measure
- The Grief and Loss Scale
- timeFrame
- 11 Weeks
- description
- (Kalpakjian et al., 2015) is a 9-item measure of an individual's emotional reactions or grief such as anger, guilt, anxiety, sadness, and despair in the past 7 days, using a 5-point scale (1=never) to 5 (always). The scores range from 9 to 45. Higher scores reflect higher degree of grief and loss.
- measure
- Emotional Distress - Depression
- timeFrame
- 11 Weeks
- description
- Short Form 8b. It is a part of the Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS). It is an 8-item measure of an individual's emotional distress (depression) in the past 7 days, using a 5-point scale (1=never) to 5 (always). The scores range from 8 to 40. Higher scores reflect higher degree of emotional distress (depression)
Eligibility
Eligibility (as posted)
- Sex
- All
- Minimum age
- 18 Years
Show eligibility criteria text
Inclusion Criteria: 1. Age 18 or older with paralysis living in the community 2. 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 3. a non-traumatic spinal cord injury may be caused by arthritis, cancer, inflammation, infections or disk degeneration of the spine 4. caregivers of people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis 5. able to communicate verbally or through writing Exclusion Criteria: 1. known maladaptive behavioral patterns, exhibition of overt psychotic symptoms (e.g., presence of hallucinations, delusions, or thought disorders) 2. congenital (e.g., spinal bifida, cerebral palsy)
References
Publications (2)
- DERIVEDXie SM, McKenna M, Veach K, Williams S, Jones MG, Vander Kamp E, Green S, Edwards L, Kirklin K, Jones BA, Yuen HK. Assessing the Psychosocial Impact of Expressive Writing on Adults With Spinal Cord Injury: Qualitative Study. JMIR Form Res. 2025 Jun 30;9:e71162. doi: 10.2196/71162. PMID 40587781
- DERIVEDYuen HK, Kamp EV, Green S, Edwards L, Kirklin K, Hanebrink S, Klebine P, Han A, Chen Y. Effects of a coach-guided video-conferencing expressive writing program on facilitating grief resolution in adults with SCI. J Spinal Cord Med. 2024 Nov;47(6):1016-1025. doi: 10.1080/10790268.2023.2253390. Epub 2023 Sep 8. PMID 37682297