Citation

McCauley SR, Pedroza C, Chapman SB, Cook LG, Vasquez AC, Levin HS. J. Clin. Exp. Neuropsychol. 2011; 33(6): 639-646.

Affiliation

Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Alliance of Baylor College of Medicine and the University of Texas Medical School at Houston, Houston, TX, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2011, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/13803395.2010.547844

PMID

21347945

PMCID

PMC3123684

Abstract

Information regarding the remediation of event-based prospective memory (EB-PM) impairments following pediatric traumatic brain injury (TBI) is scarce. Addressing this, two levels of monetary incentives were used to improve EB-PM in children ages 7 to 16 years with orthopedic injuries (OI, n = 51), or moderate (n = 25) and severe (n = 39) TBI at approximately 3 months post-injury. The EB-PM task consisted of the child giving a specific verbal response to a verbal cue from the examiner while performing a battery of neuropsychological measures (ongoing task). Significant effects were found for age-at-test, motivation condition, period, and group. Within-group analyses indicated that OI and moderate TBI groups performed significantly better under the high- than under the low-incentive condition, but the severe TBI group demonstrated no significant improvement. These results indicate that EB-PM can be significantly improved at 3 months post-injury in children with moderate, but not severe, TBI.

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