TBI Publications

Study examined the relationship between neuropsychological test performance and the status of employment and academic pursuit outcomes at 1 year following traumatic brain injury (TBI). Variables used in the analysis included demographic factors, injury severity indices, and neuropsychological test scores. Results indicated that neuropsychological performance at 1 year following ...

Article describes the development of a telephone follow-up program that addresses the needs of individuals with traumatic brain injury (TBI) and their families during the first year after injury. Eighty-four TBI survivors and their families participated in the program. Information regarding the number of contacts, areas of concern for ...

Article presents an analysis of long-term survival among a random sample of Americans who experienced traumatic brain injury (TBI). Both 30-day and long-term survival were analyzed for moderate-to-severe and mild TBI cases separately. Review of medical records identified 1,448 confirmed incident cases; 164 were moderate to severe and 1,284 ...

Article describes the development and content of Participation Objective, Participation Subjective (POPS), a new measure of community integration that incorporates both objective and subjective aspects of participation. Participation refers to engagement in activities that are either intrinsically social, part of household or other occupational role functioning, or recreational activities ...

The utility of the Useful Field of View (UFOV) test as a measure of attention in patients with acquired brain injury (ABI) was examined by comparing the UFOV test results with those of conventional neuropsychological tests. The UFOV provides a measure of focused and divided visual attention under varying ...

Two exploratory factor analyses were conducted to determine whether there is a latent structure among measures currently used to assess community integration, health status, and quality of life outcomes for rehabilitation patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI). The instruments examined were the Community Integration Questionnaire (CIQ), the Craig Handicap ...

Article reviews existing knowledge of the quality of life (QOL) of people with traumatic brain injury (TBI) and makes recommendations for future research in this area. Research relevant to the following areas is discussed: (1) QOL as achievements, (2) QOL as subjective well-being (SWB), (3) QOL as utility, (4) ...

Article describes the rates, risk factors, and phenomenology of depression over 3 to 5 years after traumatic brain injury (TBI). Depressive symptoms were evaluated in 283 subjects using the Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale. Demographic information, brain injury severity, and the subject's preinjury psychosocial history were evaluated in relation to ...

Objective: Study functional changes between one and five years after traumatic brain injury (TBI). Design: Prospective cohort. Setting and participants: TBI Model Systems National Database subjects using cohort with complete one and five year data (n = 301). Main outcome measures: Disability Rating Scale (DRS) Level of Functioning and ...

Study evaluated the ability of the Cognitive Log (Cog-Log) to predict cognitive outcome 1 year after traumatic brain injury (TBI). The Cog-Log is a bedside screening measure that assesses orientation, memory, praxis, concentration, response inhibition, and executive functioning in rehabilitation inpatients. It was developed to serve as a companion ...

Functional magnetic resonance imaging was used to examine cerebellar activation during a working memory task in 8 individuals with multiple sclerosis (MS) and 5 healthy control subjects. Both the control and MS groups showed significantly greater activation in the right cerebellar hemisphere compared with the left side. However, subjects ...