A Community Support Network Intervention in SOAR Project Intimate Partner Violence-Related Traumatic Brain Injury

The SOAR Community Support Network (CSN) intervention is a multi-pillar, interdisciplinary system platform focused on improving higher order cognitive functions through aerobic exercise, mindfulness meditation, counselling, quality of life tracking, and cognitive exercises. The goal is to improve cognitive functions such as executive function, reasoning, and memory among those experiencing the effects of brain injury. Individually tailored protocol is administered to each participant. Goals are set daily, weekly, and monthly, and accomplishments tracked in a database. The CSN seeks to test and evaluate the success of the program when applied, and tailored, to survivors of brain injury in intimate partner violence.

Participants in this group will receive dose-equivalent usual care based on the findings of a recent survey of the Canadian Rehabilitation Clinicians for concussion management, scoping review and clinical studies. Based on the evidence, usual care in this study will consist of education and aerobic exercises. Education includes information about the injury, recovery, management, nutrition, hydration, sleep, reassurance and goal setting that will be adapted to make appropriate to the population of this study. Aerobics include stationary cycling and treadmill exercises.