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Developing a New Scale for Body Awareness in Spinal Cord Injury

This study aims to create and test a new way to measure how adults with spinal cord injury (SCI) understand and feel their body, also known as mental body representation (MBR). This includes body awareness and how they picture their body in space. Researchers want to make sure this new scale is reliable (gives consistent results) and valid (measures what it's supposed to). You might be able to join if you are an adult aged 18 or older with SCI (complete or incomplete for at least one year, medically stable, and able to read English) or an uninjured adult. This is an observational study, meaning there are no interventions or treatments being tested. The study will involve interviews and email communication to help develop the scale.

Study design
This is an observational study with a planned enrollment of 80 participants. It is designed to develop and test a new evaluation scale.
What's involved
Participants will engage in email communication and individual interviews, which can be done remotely via Zoom or in-person.
Compensation
Not stated in the trial record.
Follow-up
The reliability, validity, and minimal detectable difference of the scale will be assessed at 1 week.

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NCT07029802

Development of a Novel Evaluation Scale of Mental Body Representation (MBR) for Adults With Spinal Cord Injury

Recruiting
Not specifiedAges 18+Observational
University of Minnesota
~80 participants
Updated 2026-06-18 on ClinicalTrials.gov
What's tested:No intervention

At a glance

Recruiting sites
1 of 1 listed site is recruiting right now
RecruitingSuspended, closed, or not yet open
What they're measuring
Reliability of the scale
Measured over 1 week
+2 more outcomes measured

Conditions

Spinal Cord Injuries

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Where it's being run

1 sites across 1 states
Minnesota1

Study leadership

  • Ann Van de Winckel · PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR · University of Minnesota

Who to contact

Sydney Carpentier
[email protected]
562-508-9693
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Eligibility criteria

Inclusion

Uninjured adults (from the contact list with the Brain Body Mind lab or through fliers or StudyFinder)
18+ years old adults
18+ years old, participants with an incomplete or complete SCI of ≥ 1 year
medically stable
able to read and understand English
having access to the internet/iPad/computer/phone and willing to come in for an in-person testing at the University of Minnesota.

Exclusion

Uncontrolled seizure disorder;
cognitive impairment and/or communicative disability (e.g., due to brain injury) preventing them from following directions or from learning;
ventilator dependency;
major medical complications;
pressure ulcers hindering prolonged sitting or lying down.

What this trial measures

  • Reliability of the scale1 week

    Inter-rater reliability of the new SCI-BodyMap scale (scores from two physical or occupational therapists testing the same participants) will be evaluated with Kappa and ICC.

  • Validity of the scale1 week

    Convergent validity of the newly developed SCI-BodyMap scale for SCI will be tested with Spearman rho correlations between the new MBR scale and the Revised Body awareness scale, Multidimensional Assessment lnteroceptive Awareness-2 (MAIA- 2), lowest, average and highest neuropathic pain levels with the Numeric Pain Rating Scale (NPRS), and the NINOS-COE SCI Functional lndex/Assistive Technology Scale (SCI/Fl-AT).

  • establish the minimal detectable difference (MDD)1 week

    The Minimal Detectable Difference (MOD) will be calculated using the standard error of measurement.