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Importance: Support for adults with TBI living in the community is limited. This puts undue burden on care partners, particularly during the transition from hospital to home. Care partners often feel distress and begin abusing alcohol. Problem Solving Training (PST) is an evidence-based, self-management approach for care partners of ...

Return to driving is a goal for almost every person experiencing TBI. Return to driving after TBI is associated with employment, greater social activity, and higher satisfaction with life. Cognitive deficits present a greater challenge for return to driving than physical deficits in many cases. However, ...

To examine the menopause transition among women who have sustained mild complicated to severe TBI. The central hypothesis is that TBI will exacerbate symptoms associated with both the menopause transition and TBI. The overall objective is to examine menopause symptoms in women with TBI and the extent to which ...

The purpose of this study is to learn about the impact of physical activity on cognitive function, pain, sleep, depression and quality of life in persons with TBI. Participants wear an activity monitoring watch at specified intervals. Data collected and analyzed from the watches as well as interviews and ...

The Mount Sinai TBI Model System team is leading this study looking at patterns of cognitive function over time. Cognitive function will be tested at different follow-up points after a person’s injury to get a clearer picture of how it changes over multiple years after a traumatic brain injury.

This study, led by the University of Alabama TBI Model System, aims to improve our understanding of the return to driving after a TBI. Participants will be interviewed to learn about driving practices, patterns and incidents over the first two years post injury. Results will help health providers in ...

The objective of this module project is to characterize patterns of cognitive function over time among individuals who are 5 years post-TBI. Our work will be organized around the following specific aims: Aim 1. Characterize patterns of change and stability in cognitive functioning from 5 to 7 years after injury among ...

The Spaulding-Harvard TBI Model System is leading a multi-center module study, in concert with the Indiana TBIMS, TIRR TBIMS, Tampa VA Polytrauma Rehabilitation Center (PRC), and Richmond VA PRC, that will develop and test the feasibility of a telephone-based structured caregiver interview (ie, “Post-Acute Survey on Severe Disability after ...

This is a prospective study of health literacy in persons with complicated mild to severe TBI, its relationship to injury severity and cognitive impairments, and its contribution to health outcomes, including chronic health conditions, global health-related quality of life, depression, and anxiety. A random sample of English and Spanish ...

Aim 1 - Collect descriptive data on Assistive Technology (AT) used by individuals with Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) including wheelchair make, model, failures, and repairs. This data will enable us to track the impact of insurance market changes, find differences in wheelchair failures, and present this information to wheelchair users. Hypothesis: The ...