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Study examined the contribution of functional ratings to the prediction of long-term employment outcome after traumatic brain injury (TBI). Predictors studied were severity of injury, pre-injury education level, pre-injury substance use, and functional ratings of patients' needs for physical, cognitive, and behavioral supervision at discharge. Bivariate correlations revealed that ...

Article reviewing previous studies of the relationship between employment outcome and inaccurate self-awareness in persons with traumatic brain injury (TBI), and presenting results of a new investigation of this topic. In the new study, data were collected on 7 predictor variables from 66 persons in a post-acute program for ...

Article presenting results of 2 studies related to impaired awareness of the effects of brain injury in persons with traumatic brain injury (TBI). The first study compared the self-ratings of 64 TBI patients to ratings by family members, in order to test the hypothesis that TBI patients would report ...

Study examined the influence of confounding factors on the relationship between race and productivity outcome after traumatic brain injury (TBI). Using data from the TBI Model Systems database, researchers studied the impact of factors confounded with race that affect productivity outcomes at 1-year follow-up. Results showed that African Americans ...

Study evaluates the utility of early cognitive assessment to predict productivity outcome after traumatic brain injury (TBI). Three hundred eighty-eight adults with TBI were administered neuropsychological tests on emergence from posttraumatic amnesia (PTA) during their inpatient stay. Analysis revealed that preinjury productivity status, duration of PTA, education level, and ...

Study using a multiple baseline design to evaluate the efficacy of a behavioral treatment program for improving the functional skills of a child with anoxic brain injury. The subject was a 12 year old girl who experienced prolonged anoxia during a near drowning accident. A neuropsychological evaluation performed 3 ...