What is the study about?
This study aims to examine the utility of common screening tools for sleep apnea (a disorder of interrupted breathing while sleeping) by examining how they compare to one another. These are tools used during inpatient rehabilitation for individuals with moderate to severe traumatic brain injury (TBI). ...
What Are Social Skills?
Social skills are the skills people use to communicate and interact with others. Social skills include what you say, as well as your body language, eye contact, facial expressions, tone of voice, and other actions. Cognitive skills (for example: staying focused, memory) and emotions (for example: anxiety, ...
The Model Systems Knowledge Translation Center presents an audio factsheet on Social Skills After Traumatic Brain Injury. The factsheet was developed by Lenore A. Hawley, MSSW, LCSW; Jody K. Newman, MA, CCC-SLP; Dawn Neumann, Ph.D., Therese M. O’Neil-Pirozzi, ScD, CCC-SLP in collaboration with the Model Systems Knowledge Translation Center. The ...
What is the study about?
This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of a new intervention that facilitates volunteer activitiy to improve well-being in individuals with traumatic brain injury (TBI). The new intervention, HOPE (Helping Others through Purpose and Engagement), involves orientation/training and a 3-month volunteer placement for the participant. Volunteer ...
Objective: To develop traumatic brain injury (TBI)-optimized versions of the Quality of Life in Neurological Disorders (Neuro-QoL) Ability to Participate in Social Roles and Activities and Satisfaction with Social Roles and Activities item banks, evaluate the psychometric properties of the item banks developed for adults with TBI, develop short form ...
To examine the association between social Internet use and real-world societal participation in survivors of moderate-severe traumatic brain injury.
Objective: To examine the association between social Internet use and real-world societal participation in survivors of moderate-severe traumatic brain injury.
Design: Prospective cross-sectional observational study.
Setting: Ten Traumatic Brain Injury Model Systems Centers.
Participants: A ...
What is the study about?
This study aims to compare traumatic brain injury (TBI) outcomes from 2 cohorts: the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research Traumatic Brain Injury Model Systems (TBIMS) in the United States and Longitudinal Head Injury Outcome Study conducted in Victoria, Australia, by the Monash ...
Objective: To examine the relationship between primary language and participation outcomes in English- and Spanish-speaking persons with complicated mild to severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) at 1 year post-injury.
Setting: Community following discharge from inpatient rehabilitation.
Participants: A total of 998 Hispanic participants with outcomes available at year 1 follow-up; 492 (49%) ...
OBJECTIVE: To determine the diagnostic sensitivity and specificity and comparative effectiveness of traditional sleep apnea screening tools in traumatic brain injury (TBI) neurorehabilitation admissions.
DESIGN: Prospective diagnostic comparative effectiveness trial of sleep apnea screening tools relative to the criterion standard, attended level 1 polysomnography including encephalography.
SETTING: Six TBI Model System Inpatient ...
What is the study about?
Recent work has highlighted that people who have sustained moderate to severe traumatic brain injury often have sleep disturbance partially due to the presence of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), a disorder resulting in the blockage of the airway while sleeping. People with OSA have disrupted sleep ...
STUDY OBJECTIVES: To compare OSA, demographic, and TBI characteristics across the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) and Centers for Medicare and Medicare (CMS) scoring rules in moderate to severe TBI undergoing inpatient neurorehabilitation.
METHODS: This is a secondary analysis from a prospective clinical trial of sleep apnea at six TBI ...
What is the study about?
Individuals with traumatic brain injury (TBI) are at an increased risk for developing chronic health conditions (i.e., diabetes, heart disease, hypertension). Because of this, it is especially important that individuals with TBI maintain a healthy lifestyle, which can be difficult given the everyday challenges associated with ...
What is the study about?
There is evidence that individuals with traumatic brain injuries (TBI) are at a higher risk for chronic health problems. The aim of this study was to investigate the occurrence of both medical and psychiatric comorbidities that appeared before and up to 10 years following TBI requiring ...
What is the study about?
Difficulty sleeping and problems with attention, memory, and understanding and processing new information, called cognitive function, are common occurrences after suffering a traumatic brain injury (TBI). A patient suffering from these types of problems may experience significant loss of their ability to function. This study examined ...
It’s common for people with a traumatic brain injury to have trouble sleeping. This comic includes information about sleep problems after TBI and how to improve your sleep.
Sleep wake cycles may be affected by damage to certain parts of the brain. Because of this, people with TBI may have trouble ...
Importance: Traumatic brain injury (TBI) leads to 2.9 million visits to US emergency departments annually and frequently involves a disorder of consciousness (DOC). Early treatment, including withdrawal of life-sustaining therapies and rehabilitation, is often predicated on the assumed worse outcome of disrupted consciousness.
Objective: To quantify the loss of consciousness, factors ...
Objective: This study compared traumatic brain injury (TBI) outcomes from 2 cohorts: the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research Traumatic Brain Injury Model Systems (TBIMS) in the United States and Longitudinal Head Injury Outcome Study conducted in Victoria, Australia, by the Monash Epworth Rehabilitation Research Centre (MERRC).
Design: ...
What is the study about?
The purpose of this study was to describe the characteristics and concerns of caregivers of adults with traumatic brain injury (TBI) over the first few months after discharge of the TBI survivor into the community.
What did the study find?
This study found that caregivers of TBI survivors ...
What is the study about?
This study examines the probability of returning to productivty, defined as engagement in school or work, over time up to 5 years following moderate-to-severe traumatic brain injury (TBI).
What did the study find?
This study found several factors associated with the likelihood of returning to work following a ...