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Study evaluate sleep quality, its correlates, and the effect of telephone-based problem-solving treatment (PST) in active duty post-deployment service members with mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI). A total of 356 service members with combat-related mTBI were randomly assigned to education-only (EO) and PST groups (178 in each group). Both ...

Study examined patterns of employment over a 10-year period for working-age individuals discharged from a Traumatic Brain Injury Model Systems (TBIMS) center. Data were analyzed for 3,618 patients with moderate-to-severe traumatic brain injury (TBI), aged 16 to 55 years, who were not retired at injury. The subjects received inpatient ...

Study evaluated the test-retest reliability of measures that comprise the follow-up interview of the Traumatic Brain Injury Model Systems (TBIMS) study. Follow-up interviews are typically conducted with the participant or proxy by phone at 1, 2, and 5 years postinjury and every 5 years thereafter. Participants were 224 persons ...

This study introduces a special series on validity studies of the Cognition Battery (CB) from the United States National Institutes of Health (National Institutes of Health (NIH) Toolbox for the Assessment of Neurological and Behavioral Function (NIHTB) in an adult sample. The NIHTB-CB is designed to provide a brief, ...

Study investigated potential discrimination against people with disabilities through a field experiment that sent 6,016 job applications for open accounting positions using fictional résumés and cover letters. One-third of the cover letters disclosed that the applicant had a spinal cord injury, one-third disclosed the presence of Asperger’s syndrome, and ...

Article describes how a systematic approach to knowledge translation (KT) was used in an iterative intervention development process that engaged key stakeholders at every phase. The goal of the Diversity Partners Project is to develop, test, and launch an innovative learning intervention to improve the relationships between employment service ...

Article reviews the issues pertaining to traumatic brain injury (TBI) and its neuropsychiatric sequelae in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5) and the changes relative to the outgoing DSM-IV-TR. The primary context for discussion of TBI in the DSM-5 is the section on Neurocognitive ...

Article introduces manuscripts that emerged from a recent forum that examined the dynamics of disability and chronic conditions. The author begins with an overview of definitions of disability and chronic conditions, then presents several reasons why disentangling chronic conditions and disability is important. Finally, he briefly describes the forum ...

Study evaluated the effects of an enhanced simulation exercise known as RADAR (Recognizing Acute Deterioration: Active Response), on medical students’ confidence in recognizing and responding to the deteriorating patient. A questionnaire survey was conducted; the instrument contained three sections. Section 1 focused on students’ perceptions of the learning experience; ...

Article utilizes administrative data to examine both short- and long-term employment impacts for people with cognitive impairments who applied for vocational rehabilitation (VR) services in Virginia in 1988 and 2000. These data provide long-term quarterly information on VR services and employment outcomes before and after the provision of services. ...

Study evaluated the impact of vocational rehabilitation (VR) services on employment outcomes of adults with physical disabilities. Using detailed panel data from the Virginia Department of Aging and Rehabilitation Services in state fiscal year 2000, researchers estimated a structural model of participation that accounts for the potentially sudden onset ...

Study examined the factor structure of the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) in a sample of individuals with traumatic brain injury (TBI) and tested the one-, two-, and three-factor models derived from previous studies in other populations. The PSQI is a measure of sleep quality in which respondents are ...

Article focuses on the first ‘‘A’’ in the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). That first ‘‘A’’ in the ADA’s law and policy framework is to apply to all qualified individuals with disabilities residing, working, recreating, using the web, and engaged in daily life activities with private and public organizations ...

Study examined the relationship between employment and the management of physical health and functioning as described by individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI) who had worked at some time after injury. Six focus groups were conducted at 2 sites and included 44 participants with SCI. Heterogeneous and homogeneous groups ...

Study examined individuals with disabilities’ social and community participation in relation to their access to transportation. A self-administered online questionnaire was disseminated to individuals with disabilities throughout the United States. Although 693 individuals responded, only 420 respondents were both 18 years of age or older and reported having a ...

Study used a participatory action research approach to examine the accessibility experiences of people with and without disabilities seeking information about local and state government facilities, programs, and services. Overall, results indicated that some progress in providing access has been achieved but that other barriers persist; access for individuals ...

Author reviews a book that highlights new trends and opportunities for using the senses of touch, sound smell, taste, and proprioception in museums to offer more immersive experiences available to patrons with visual impairments.

Article describes ways that technology may enhance delivery and outcomes of individual placement and support (IPS) supported employment across the care continuum and stakeholder groups. Technology has the potential to enhance direct service as well as workflow in the IPS supported employment process, which may lead to improved fidelity ...