TBI Publications

Article discusses the symptoms, types, and treatment options for seizures related to traumatic brain injury (TBI). It includes tips on safety issues and what a caregiver should do if a person with TBI is having a seizure.

Study examined the measurement properties of the Community Integration Measure (CIM) in people with traumatic brain injury (TBI). The CIM was designed to quickly assess an individual’s subjective sense of integration into his or her community. Rasch analysis was used to retrospectively evaluate CIM data obtained from 279 individuals ...

Study examined racial/ethnic disparities differences in depression, anxiety, and satisfaction with life among individuals with traumatic brain injury (TBI) participating in the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research TBI Model Systems project. Participants were 1,662 individuals with moderate or severe TBI, aged 16 years or older, who were ...

Study examined the relationship between race/ethnicity and poverty status after spinal cord injury (SCI). A secondary analysis was conducted of data collected from 2,043 adults with traumatic SCI. Poverty status was measured using criteria from the United States (US) Census Bureau. Results indicated that 20.3 percent of the study ...

Study examined the factor structure of the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) in a sample of individuals with traumatic brain injury (TBI) and tested the one-, two-, and three-factor models derived from previous studies in other populations. The PSQI is a measure of sleep quality in which respondents are ...

Study interviewed 18 college students with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) concerning their career planning experiences. Participants attended community colleges and/or universities in Virginia and ranged from freshmen through graduate school. The structured interviews focused on students’ current status in career planning and preparation, use of campus services and supports, ...

Study identified factors associated with psychotic-type symptoms in patients in a posttraumatic confusional state (PTCS) during early recovery following a moderate or severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) and investigated the prognostic significance of early psychotic-type symptoms for patient productivity outcome. Participants were recruited from the National Institute on Disability ...

Study examined the relationship among life satisfaction, community integration, and emotional distress in adults with traumatic brain injury (TBI). Participants were 253 adults with mild complicated, moderate, and severe TBI who were enrolled in a large, longitudinal study of individuals with TBI. Main measures included the Satisfaction with Life ...

This scoping review was conducted to describe recent research that has examined health outcome disparities within populations of people with disabilities. MEDLINE, PsycINFO, and CINAHL databases were searched for relevant articles. Three staff independently reviewed abstracts according to inclusion criteria. Two of the authors then independently extracted data from ...

Study investigated the unique associations of suicidal ideation (SI) and lifetime suicide attempts (SAs) in individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI). Data were collected from 2,453 adults with a history of traumatic SCI recruited from 4 SCI Model System sites and 2 additional sites as part of the Project ...

Article describes a framework for adapting evidence-based health promotion strategies for people with disabilities. A study illustrates how the framework has been used to adapt the obesity prevention strategies developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for individuals with physical and developmental disabilities. The development of ...

Article reviews various treatment taxonomies current used in health care and the attempts at building classifications in rehabilitation. Discussion focuses on the need to base a rehabilitation treatment taxonomy (RTT) on the “active ingredients” of treatments and their link to patient/client deficits/problems that are targeted in therapy. This is ...

Article describes challenges encountered and lessons learned in an effort to explore the black box of rehabilitation. A multidisciplinary team created detailed, mutually exclusive operational definitions for the contents of learning-based treatments administered in a brain injury unit. The function and activity levels of the International Classification of Functioning, ...

Article provides an overview of the current knowledge about pain processing and assessment in patients with disorders of consciousness (DOC). Study were identified through a search performed on PubMed using MeSH terms including vegetative state (VS), unresponsive wakefulness syndrome (UWS), minimally conscious state (MCS), consciousness disorders, pain, nociception, neuroimaging, ...

Study explored the roles of leisure in the lives of employed people with mobility impairments. The three goals of the study were to: (1) understand participants’ perceptions of the significance of leisure in their work and personal lives; (2) examine how participants perceived their disabilities influenced their leisure and ...

Study examined the relationship of depression and personal and injury characteristics to post-traumatic psychological growth (PTG) in 824 adults with spinal cord injury (SCI). PTG was measured using the Post-traumatic Growth Inventory, reflecting positive change after injury in life priorities, closeness to others, new opportunities being available, stronger faith, ...

Study explored the relationships between positive psychology constructs (character strengths, resilience, and positive mood) and rehabilitation-related variables (perceptions of functional ability post-injury and beliefs about treatment) within a baseline data set, a six-month follow-up data set, and longitudinally across time points. Pearson correlations and supplementary multiple regression analyses were ...

Article describes how employment service providers (ESPs) can prepare for the implementation of the new rules for Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act by considering how they partner with employers, work with service recipients or, in some cases, function as employers themselves. These new rules could have significant impacts ...