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Article describes checklists that can be helpful to developers of research proposals in specifying what treatments will be delivered and how they will be measured as well as to authors who, when all data have been analyzed, set out to inform others of their findings. Observers commonly note the ...

Study examined resilience, defined as the ability to “bounce back” after a trauma or tragedy, at 3 months after traumatic brain injury (TBI). Participants were community-dwelling adults with moderate-to-severe TBI enrolled in the resilience module of the TBI Model System study. Of the 223 participants recruited from 5 inpatient ...

Study evaluated the utility of the School Transition and Re-entry Program (STEP) model, a systematic hospital-to-school transition protocol for children hospitalized for traumatic brain injury (TBI). One hundred families of children with mild, complicated mild, moderate, or severe TBI were randomized while hospitalized to receive STEP or usual care. ...

Study investigated whether the extent of brainstem traumatic axonal injury (TAI), measured by the number of dorsal brainstem traumatic microbleeds (TMBs), correlates with 1-year functional outcome more strongly than does the number of TMBs in the ventral brainstem, corpus callosal, or entire brain. Further, it was hypothesized that TMBs ...

Study developed a profile of individuals with traumatic brain injury (TBI) who received inpatient rehabilitation and were discharged to an institutional setting using characteristics measured at rehabilitation discharge. Data were analyzed data for participants enrolled in the Traumatic Brain Injury Model Systems National Database from January 2002 to June ...

Study investigated the rates of negative outcomes associated with all severities of traumatic brain injury (TBI), treated in all settings or not treated at all, in comparison to the general population. A statewide population-based survey of 2,701 Coloradoans was conducted using the computer-assisted, modified Ohio State University TBI Identification ...

Study investigated whether urban/rural disparities in colorectal cancer screening exist among people with disabilities, similar to the disparities found in the general population. The Medical Expenditure Panel Survey annual data files were analyzed from 2002 to 2008. Logistic regression analyses examined the relationship between urban/rural residence and ever having ...

Study examined the level of satisfaction with cognitive rehabilitation delivered via the Internet in participants with moderate-to-severe acquired brain injury (ABI). Fifteen adults with moderate-to-severe ABI were randomized to 30 days of Internet-based active treatment or to a wait list group, and crossed over to the opposite condition after ...

Article introduces a special journal issue focusing on “scholarship of practice”, conceptualized as the close relationship and ongoing dynamic interplay between scholars, practitioners, and community members working together in a complex context. This approach proposes that community members and participants become the critical players and collaborators in the creation ...

Article describes a scoping review of the research conducted on the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). A broad range of research on the ADA tracks its progress and impact. Much of the research is inconclusive or conflicting, creating a fragmented evidence base about the ADA's effectiveness as a social policy. ...

Study evaluated the validity of the Spinal Cord Injury Pain Instrument (SCIPI), an interview-based spinal cord injury (SCI) neuropathic pain screening instrument. Clinician diagnoses of neuropathic pain (NP) and non-neuropathic pain subtypes were collected independently of descriptions of the pain characteristics provided by the patient with SCI using the ...

Article describes a process for operationalizing the World Health Organization’s International Classification of Disability, Functioning, and Health concept of disability for MEDLINE, PsycINFO, and CINAHL databases. Translating a comprehensive conceptual definition of “disability” into an operational definition that utilizes electronic databases in the health sciences is a difficult step ...

Study examined the rate of prophylactic seizure medication usage following traumatic brain injury (TBI) and the extent to which the guidelines for seizure prophylaxis after TBI were followed in a tertiary care level 1 trauma center and affiliated inpatient rehabilitation facility. A retrospective medical records review was conducted of ...

Study evaluated 109 individuals with traumatic brain injury from the United States and India, including Christians, Hindus, and Muslims, to determine if right hemisphere/right parietal lobe (RH/RPL) selflessness is a universal neuropsychological foundation for spiritual transcendence across cultures and religions. Research has shown that increased spiritual transcendence is related ...

Article provides self-scoring templates for the motor and cognitive scales of the Functional Independence Measure (FIM) that enable clinicians to monitor progress during rehabilitation using equal-interval Rasch-calibrated measures instead of ordinal raw scores. The FIM instrument is a measure of independence consisting of 13 physical and 5 cognitive functioning ...

Study evaluated the sensitivity and specificity of Coma Recovery Scale-Revised (CRS-R) total scores in detecting conscious awareness. Data were retrospectively extracted from the medical records of 252 patients enrolled in a specialized disorders of consciousness program. Sensitivity and specificity analyses were completed using CRS-R-derived diagnoses of minimally conscious state ...

Study explored the effect of interagency collaboration on student vocational rehabilitation outcomes in a statewide model demonstration project for youth with disabilities. Using two different measures of perceptions of collaboration among inter-agency teams, results of the study were paradoxical. The findings suggested that instrumental or task-oriented perceptions of collaboration ...

Study examined current state-level efforts to identify and provide special education and related services to children with traumatic brain injury (TBI). A 1999 survey of State Directors of Special Education revealed that most states had emerging initiatives for children with TBI and were expanding their capacity to serve this growing ...