TBI Publications

Study tested the incremental utility of response time (RT) on the Warrington Recognition Memory Test - Words (RMT-W) in classifying bona fide versus feigned traumatic brain injury (TBI). Participants were 173 adults: 55 with moderate-to-severe TBI, 69 healthy comparison adults (HC) instructed to perform their best, and 49 healthy adults ...

Study compared Special Operations Forces (SOF) versus conventional forces (CF) personnel regarding the presence of neurobehavioral symptoms after traumatic brain injury (TBI). Participants were drawn from the Veterans Affairs (VA) TBI Model Systems Cohort, which includes service members and veterans (SM/V) who received inpatient rehabilitation for TBI at one of ...

Article provides information to help patients prepare for and participate in a telehealth visit. Telehealth is when a healthcare provider appointment happens through technology, usually a video chat.

Article offers information to help family caregivers prepare to meet the future needs of their loved one with a brain injury. It provides a checklist of important points for the family-member caregiver and the individual with brain injury to discuss, including recordkeeping, financial and legal considerations, and living arrangements. ...

Study examined the management of alcohol withdrawal syndrome (AWS) using Clinical Institute Withdrawal Assessment (CIWA) protocol in patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI). A major purpose of CIWA is to guide the addition and titration of central nervous system depressants, most commonly benzodiazepines. Data were collected from 375 patients with ...

Study investigated the relationships among substance misuse, depression, employment, and suicidal ideation (SI) following moderate-to-severe traumatic brain injury (TBI). Participants were 1,377 individuals with moderate-to-severe TBI enrolled in both the National Trauma Data Bank and the Traumatic Brain Injury Model Systems National Database, aged 18 to 59 years, with SI ...

Article addresses the longstanding debate around allocation of resources to people with disorders of consciousness (DoC) caused by acquired brain injury. The authors endorse the prospective benefit proposal and provide corroborative empirical evidence in support of this approach by comparing data on early withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment with recent findings ...

Study investigated the effects of state-level resources and supports as an environmental factor influencing long-term outcomes from traumatic brain injury (TBI) using data from the TBI Model Systems. The primary hypothesis was that community participation, global functioning, and life satisfaction will be higher on average among people with TBI living ...

Study investigated the relationship between Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) total scores and level of consciousness in patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI). The GCS total score aims to reflect severity of injury, with scores of 3–8 indicating a severe injury, 9–12 a moderate injury, and 13–15 a mild injury. A ...

Study examined the convergent validity of the Brief Test of Adult Cognition by Telephone (BTACT) by determining correlation with established neuropsychological tests, administered an average of 4.4 days apart, in an inpatient traumatic brain injury (TBI) population. Fifty-five patients receiving inpatient rehabilitation for new-onset TBI completed the following measures: BTACT, ...

Study compared the effects of an adapted Screening, Education, and Brief Intervention (Adapted SBI) with those of Screening and Education with Attention Control (SEA) for reducing alcohol misuse following traumatic brain injury (TBI). Adapted SBI is a brief intervention for alcohol misuse that includes screening, education, motivational interviewing, and accommodations ...

Study developed a measure of global functioning after moderate-to-severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) with similar measurement precision but a longer measurement range than the Functional Independence Measure (FIM). The study was conducted in 2 phases by 6 centers participating in the TBI Model Systems program. Phase 1 involved retrospective analysis ...

Study evaluated the association among lifetime traumatic brain injury (TBI) exposure, opioid use, and pain in a nationally representative sample of 1,022 adults over age 50 who participated in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). Lifetime TBI history was measured via the Ohio State University TBI Identification Method. Three alternate ...

Article describes an adaptive strategy for assigning wait times for participants randomized to the control group in waitlist control (WLC) trials. WLC clinical trials are popular among psychologists and rehabilitation specialists partly because all participants receive the intervention. In 2-arm WLC trials, individuals randomized to the treatment group receive immediate ...

Study examined the independent and interactive effects of aging and chronicity on functional outcomes after traumatic brain injury (TBI). Participants were 1,993 individuals who sustained a moderate/severe TBI and received acute inpatient rehabilitation at specialized centers with high follow-up as part of their involvement in the TBI Model Systems longitudinal ...

Study explored how acute cortisol profiles affect cognition among traumatic brain injury (TBI) survivors. It was hypothesized that serum and cerebral spinal fluid (CSF) cortisol trajectories over days 0–5 post-injury are associated with cognition 6-month post-injury. The study evaluated 94 participants with severe TBI, collected acute serum and/or CSF samples ...

Assessing the minimal clinical change that a patient would perceive as beneficial is impossible in unconscious and non-communicative patients. The authors propose a novel probability-based approach to developing a minimal clinically significant change for the two most commonly used scales in patients with disorders of consciousness: the Coma Recovery Scale ...

Objective: Describe driving patterns following moderate-to-severe traumatic brain injury (TBI). Participants: Adults (N = 438) with TBI that required inpatient acute rehabilitation who had resumed driving. Design: Cross-sectional, observational design. Setting: Eight TBI Model System sites. Main measures: A driving survey was completed at phone follow-up. Results: Most respondents reported driving daily, although 41% ...

The Brief Multidimensional Measure of Religiousness/Spirituality (BMMRS) is regularly used to measure spirituality and religiosity in U.S. Christian populations, although it has not been used for making comparisons with non-Western groups. This study compared BMMRS results for 109 individuals (60 in the U.S. and 49 in India) with traumatic brain ...

Objective: The addition of Sequencing to WAIS-IV Digit Span (DS) brought about new Reliable Digit Span (RDS) indices and an Age-Corrected Scaled Score that includes Sequencing trials. Reports have indicated that these new performance validity tests (PVTs) are superior to the traditional RDS; however, comparisons in the context of known ...