TBI Publications

Study examines the relationship between emotional distress and perception of deficits in 50 people with brain injury and their significant others. Forty percent of the brain injury patients and 24 percent of their significant others reported symptoms of depression, while 54 percent of TBI group and 39 percent of ...

Study examining the ability of 1st-year physical medicine and rehabilitation (PM&R) residents to accurately predict functional outcome in acute rehabilitation setting. Residents at a rehabilitation hospital made predictions of discharge FIM (Functional Independence Measure) scores after assessing patients (n = 242) at admission. Findings indicate that the residents' predictive ...

Balance dysfunction is commonly observed following traumatic brain injury. There are many proposed predictors of functional outcome in the traumatic brain injury population. It was hypothesized that the degree of balance dysfunction on admission to rehabilitation would be a significant predictor of the need for assistance at discharge, as ...

OBJECTIVE: This article describes the Center for Outcome Measurement in Brain Injury (COMBI), an Internet resource that provides information on brain injury outcome measures. Funded by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR), the COMBI is a collaborative project of eight Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Model System ...

Study examining the ability of 1st-year physical medicine and rehabilitation (PM&R) residents to accurately predict functional outcome in acute rehabilitation setting. Residents at a rehabilitation hospital made predictions of discharge FIM (Functional Independence Measure) scores after assessing patients (n = 242) at admission. Findings indicate that the residents' predictive skills ...

Reports on study to determine similarities and differences with family functioning among primary caregivers of persons with traumatic brain injury (TBI) and caregivers for persons with spinal cord injury (SCI). Primary caregivers of persons with SCI report significantly more stress secondary to phobic anxiety than caregivers of persons with ...

Article offers critical commentary focused on a cognitive rehabilitation review paper appearing in the same issue (Carney N, Chesnut R M, Maynard H, et al. Effect of cognitive rehabilitation on outcomes for persons with traumatic brain injury: a systematic review. J Head Trauma Rehabil 1999;14(3):277-307; NARIC accession number: J36734). ...

Article describes the Laws of the House of Rehab, a framework that rehabilitation professionals can use to address the psychological and rehabilitation needs of individuals with neurological disabilities. Organized by content areas, the laws encompass practice fundamentals, assessment and history taking, treatment planning, treatment, and communication. The laws can ...

Study investigating the factor structure and concurrent validity of the Community Integration Questionnaire (CIQ), using a sample of 312 persons with traumatic brain injury (TBI). Three factors emerged (home competency, social integration, and productive activity). Each CIQ score showed expected correlations with Functional Independence Measure (FIM), Functional Assessment Measure ...

Study examined the contribution of functional ratings to the prediction of long-term employment outcome after traumatic brain injury (TBI). Predictors studied were severity of injury, pre-injury education level, pre-injury substance use, and functional ratings of patients' needs for physical, cognitive, and behavioral supervision at discharge. Bivariate correlations revealed that ...

Objective: To investigate incidence and etiology of rehospitalizations at 1,2, and 3 years after traumatic brain injury. Design: Descriptive statistics were computed in a prospective study of etiology and incidence of rehospitalization at years 1, 2, and 3 postinjury. Analysis of variance (ANOVA) and x2 were used to identify ...

Objective: To examine the utility of executive function tests in predicting rehabilitation outcome. Design: A prospective, descriptive study of the value of neuropsychologic and motor functioning measures in the prediction of functional outcome 6 months after acute rehabilitation. Setting: A Midwestern, urban, university-affiliated rehabilitation hospital. Patients: Ninety consecutive admissions ...

OBJECTIVE: To investigate incidence and etiology of rehospitalizations at 1, 2, and 3 years after traumatic brain injury. DESIGN: Descriptive statistics were computed in a prospective study of etiology and incidence of rehospitalization at years 1, 2, and 3 postinjury. Analysis of variance (ANOVA) and chi2 were used to ...

OBJECTIVE: To investigate incidence and etiology of rehospitalizations at 1, 2, and 3 years after traumatic brain injury. DESIGN: Descriptive statistics were computed in a prospective study of etiology and incidence of rehospitalization at years 1, 2, and 3 postinjury. Analysis of variance (ANOVA) and chi2 were used to ...

Study assessing the importance of comorbid medical illnesses in predicting mortality for a geriatric rehabilitation sample independently of other demographic and clinical characteristics. Participants were 667 inpatients followed between 1 and 3 years at an urban rehabilitation hospital. It was found that more severe comorbid medical illnesses, worse physical ...

Presents a set of guidelines for psychologists to follow in assessment of the legal competency of older adults. Also describes the development of the assessment guidelines and discusses the usefulness of practice guidelines in general.

Article reports on a study to determine the prevalence and type of sleep disorders following a traumatic brain injury (TBI). Sleep disturbance information was gathered from 86 subjects one year after discharge from a rehabilitation facility. Fifty percent of the subjects had difficulty sleeping; 64 percent described waking up ...

Study examining the influence of semantic information on word-stem priming in a nonclinical sample. Stimuli consisted of threatening and non-threatening words presented in computerized word-stem priming and cued recall tasks. The authors hypothesized that word-type effects and thus the processing of semantic information would be evident in word-stem priming. ...