Florida Atlantic University’s https://www.fau.edu Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing received $250,000 from the Eugene Washington PCORI Engagement Awards program, which funds the Mind Over Matter (M.O.M) program.
The M.O.M project is part of a portfolio of projects that PCORI has funded to help develop a community of patients and other stakeholders equipped to participate as partners in comparative Clinical Effectiveness Research (CER) and also to disseminate PCORI-funded study results.
The M.O.M project with four units in Ohio, Florida, South Carolina, and Texas, will engage veterans with TBI, their caregivers, and other stakeholders to bolster patient-centered outcomes research and comparative effectiveness research to identify treatment options for TBIs that are effective, acceptable, and meaningful to the Veteran population.
Common comorbidities of a TBI include cognitive changes, epilepsy, chronic pain, headaches, sleep disorders, dizziness and balance issues, substance misuse, depression, anxiety and behavioral disturbances. The cost of lifetime treatment for a TBI in the U.S is estimated at $85,00 to $3 million.
Cheryl Krause-Parello PhD., leading the Project with Co-Leader Elisa V. Borah PhD, reports, “There is no one-size that fits all when treating TBI which has profound effects on veterans and their families.
The M.O.M program will help uncover ways Veterans with a TBI want to receive healthcare information, how they want research results communicated, and in what mediums in the context of COVID-19. The project will give veterans and their caregivers an active voice, a platform for engagement, and close the knowledge gap through the creation of a veteran-driven roadmap to research on TBI.