Model System:

TBI

Reference Type:

JA

Accession No.:

Journal:


Neuropsychological Rehabilitation

Year, Volume, Issue, Page(s):

, 17, 3, 293-313

Publication Website:

Abstract:

The present study used the National Institute on Disability Rehabilitation and Research (NIDRR) funded Traumatic Brain Injury Model Systems (TBIMS) database to examine the effect of gender on presentation of executive dysfunction following traumatic brain injury (TBI) and variables that might impact the course and degree of recovery. The Wisconsin Card Sort Test (WCST) was chosen as a measure of executive function which has good credentials without reports of gender effects. Female subjects performed significantly better on the WCST than male subjects as shown by analyses of variance on scores of 1,331 patients for Categories Achieved (means for females = 4.09, males = 3.67, p = .003) and Perseverative Responses (means for females = 32.17, males = 36.42, p = .003). Outperformance by females was also noted in additional ANOVAs examining the interaction of education and gender, and ethnicity and gender in relation to Categories Achieved (p

Author(s):


Niemeier, J. P., Marwitz, J. H., Lesher, K., Walker, W. C., Bushnik, T.