Objective
To examine the differences in participation, life satisfaction, and psychosocial outcomes among individuals with traumatic brain injury (TBI) endorsing current, past, or no chronic pain.
Design
Multisite, crosssectional observational cohort study.
Results
Persons with current chronic pain demonstrated higher scores on measures of PTSD, anxiety, and depression, and the lower scores on measures of ...
Objective
To estimate the prevalence of chronic pain after traumatic brain injury (TBI) and identify characteristics that differ from those without chronic pain.
Design
A multisite, cross-sectional observational cohort study.
Results
46% reported current chronic pain, 14% reported past (post-injury) chronic pain, and 40% reported no chronic pain. Bivariate differences in sociodemographic and injury characteristics ...
Objective
Identify determinants to chronic pain healthcare for persons with traumatic brain injury (TBI) informed
by an Access to Care Framework. Findings related to the Access Framework’s core domains of identifying a
need, perceptions of the need, and seeking healthcare are reported.
Design
Descriptive, qualitative study.
Results
For the overall sample,
14 facilitators and 6 barriers were endorsed ...
Objective
The purpose of this article is to illustrate the process of stakeholder-engaged intervention mapping
approach to identify implementation strategies to overcome data-driven prioritized barriers to receiving chronic pain
services for persons with traumatic brain injury (TBI).
Design
Participatory-based research design, using descriptive and
intervention mapping approaches.
Results
Four barriers to accessing chronic pain treatment by persons with ...
With greater survival rates after catastrophic injury, more women with traumatic brain injury (TBI) are living longer than ever. However, knowledge about this transition in these women is largely unexamined and there are no scales that have been developed to assess the experience of symptoms. To address this gap, we ...
Objective
To identify facilitators and barriers to reaching and utilizing chronic pain treatments for persons with traumatic brain injury (TBI) organized around an Access to Care framework, which includes dimensions of access to healthcare as a function of supply (ie, provider/system) and demand (ie, patient) factors for a specified patient population.
Setting
Community.
Participants
Clinicians ...
What is the study about?
This study looks at the efficacy of an education and self-management program called the brain health group (BHG). The BHG focuses on brain health education and self-management for individuals with moderate to severe traumatic brain injury (TBI). The program is twelve months long and consists of ...
What is the study about?
This study looked at the emotional awareness, emotional function, and empathy of individuals with TBI in relation to care partner burden one year after injury.
What did the study find?
The study found that 77% of care partners were female with most either being a spouse or parent. ...
Giới Thiệu
Khi da đang lành sau khi bỏng thương, nó có thể bị ngứa. Đa số những người phục hồi sau một lần bỏng nặng đều gặp vấn đề với ngứa- đặc biệt là ở chỗ bỏng hoặc. quanh chỗ bỏng, chỗ ghép da, hoặc chỗ hiến da. Từ ngữ ...
What is the study about?
This study describes the demographic and health profile of people living with Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury (TSCI) in order to help evlauate health care needs of this population.
What did the study find?
Even though the percentage of people with a bachelor’s degree was similar in the TSCI ...
Objective
Pupillometry provides information about physiological and psychological processes related to cognitive load, familiarity, and deception, and it is outside of conscious control. This study examined pupillary dilation patterns during a performance validity test (PVT) among adults with true and feigned impairment of traumatic brain injury (TBI).
Participants and methods:
Participants were 214 ...
Giới Thiệu
Đau đớn trường kỳ có thể gây gián đoạn mọi khía cạnh cuộc sống, bao gồm:
Ngủ: đau có thể làm quý vị khó rơi vào giấc ngủ hoặc ngủ lâu.
Khả năng làm việc: đau có thể hạn chế khả năng hoạt động hoặc tập trung vào công việc.
Tâm trạng: ...
What is the study about?
This study’s aim was to describe the relationship between spasticity and perceived quality of life as well as the perceived value of spasticity management approaches for individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI).
What did the study find?
This study found that spasms most often occurred in response to ...
Hiểu Về Mức Độ Trầm Trọng của Vết Bỏng
Bỏng thương là vết thương gây ra bởi lửa hoặc cháy, chất lỏng hoặc hơi nóng, tiếp xúc với vật thể nóng hoặc tác nhân như dầu mỡ hoặc dầu hắc, chất hóa học, hoặc điện. Khi khám nghiệm bỏng, bác sĩ ...
Objective:
To synthesize evidence for the effectiveness of self-management interventions for chronic health conditions that have symptom overlap with traumatic brain injury (TBI) in order to extract recommendations for self-management intervention in persons with TBI.
Design:
An umbrella review of existing systematic reviews and/or meta-analyses of randomized controlled trials or nonrandomized studies targeting ...
What Is Functional Electrical Stimulation?
People with a spinal cord injury (SCI) often have weakness in their arm, leg, or trunk muscles. This weakness may be partial or complete, making some movements difficult or impossible. In many cases, functional electrical stimulation (FES) can help with weak muscles. FES delivers small electrical ...
Objective:
To determine if the interaction of opiate misuse and marijuana use frequency is associated with behavioral health outcomes.
Design:
Cross-sectional, secondary analysis from a multisite observational cohort.
Results:
Three thousand five hundred thirty-five (94.3%) participants did not misuse opiates, 215 (5.7%) did misuse opiates (taking more opioid pain medication than prescribed and/or using nonprescription ...
Objective:
To examine whether exposure to high-risk events causing injury to the head or neck has an effect on neurobehavioral symptoms in the absence of an alteration of consciousness in Spanish-speakers.
Design:
Cross-sectional study. Subconcussive exposure was defined as endorsing exposure to one or more high-risk scenarios in the absence of any alteration ...