Citation

Schmidt AT, Orsten KD, Hanten GR, Li X, Levin HS. Brain Inj. 2010; 24(13-14): 1550-1560.

Affiliation

Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2010, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.3109/02699052.2010.523047

PMID

21058900

PMCID

PMC3249284

Abstract

Objective: This study investigated the relationship between family functioning and performance on two tasks of emotion recognition (emotional prosody and face emotion recognition) and a cognitive control procedure (the Flanker task) following paediatric traumatic brain injury (TBI) or orthopaedic injury (OI). Methods: A total of 142 children (75 TBI, 67 OI) were assessed on three occasions: baseline, 3 months and 1 year post-injury on the two emotion recognition tasks and the Flanker task. Caregivers also completed the Life Stressors and Resources Scale (LISRES) on each occasion. Growth curve analysis was used to analyse the data. Results: Results indicated that family functioning influenced performance on the emotional prosody and Flanker tasks but not on the face emotion recognition task. Findings on both the emotional prosody and Flanker tasks were generally similar across groups. However, financial resources emerged as significantly related to emotional prosody performance in the TBI group only (p = 0.0123). Conclusions: Findings suggest family functioning variables-especially financial resources-can influence performance on an emotional processing task following TBI in children.

Language: en