NCT04721717Completed
AIM's Writing for Healing: A Workshop for Individuals Living With Paralysis
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 25 Sept 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
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.
- Status (registry)
- Completed
- Study type
- Observational
- Enrollment
- 95 (actual)
- First submitted
- 3 Dec 2020
- Start date
- 1 Sept 2020
- Primary completion date
- 4 Apr 2025
- Lead sponsor
- University of Alabama at Birmingham
- NCT number
- NCT04721717
What you commit to
- Study type: Observational
- Participants enrolled: 95
- From 1 Sept 2020 to the primary completion date, 4 Apr 2025
- 1 site in 1 country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Other illness
- known maladaptive behavioral patterns, exhibition of overt psychotic symptoms (e.g., presence of hallucinations, delusions, or thought disorders)
Other
- congenital (e.g., spinal bifida, cerebral palsy)
Who the study is looking for
- 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
- able to communicate verbally or through writing
Age in the registry: 18 years to - · Sex: All · Accepts healthy volunteers
Sites (1)
Sites in registry order. Pick your city on the disease page to sort them by distance.
| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 354 School of Health Professions Building Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Birmingham | United States | Unknown status |
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