Preliminary investigation of longitudinal sociodemographic, injury and psychosocial characteristics in a group of non-English speaking Latinos with brain injury

Brain Injury : [BI]
Laura JamisonJerry Wright

Abstract

To describe the sociodemographic and injury characteristics and psychosocial outcomes at 1 and 10 years post-injury in a group of Spanish-speaking individuals with traumatic brain injury. Descriptive cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses of prospectively collected data. Assessments were completed on 57 non-English speaking Latinos with TBI, injured between March 1991 and January 2008, who were treated at a Traumatic Brain Injury Model System of Care acute rehabilitation facility. Follow-up data was collected cross-sectionally at 1 year (n = 41) and 10 years (n = 23) post-injury. Longitudinal data (both Y1 and Y10) were available for 17 of those individuals. Post injury employment and residence, Disability Rating Scale, Functional Independence Measure. At 1 year, the majority of participants were unemployed (63.4%) and did not require assistance of another individual (58.5%) as measured by the DRS Level of Functioning. FIM scores showed that the greatest difficulty was in the area of problem-solving and memory with over half the sample needing assistance in these areas. At 10 years post-injury, 47.8% were unemployed and remained independent of assistance from a caretaker (56.5%) as measured by the DRS. FIM results revealed t...Continue Reading

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