@article{ref1,
title="The trajectories of overall disability in the first 5 years after moderate and severe traumatic brain injury",
journal="Brain injury",
year="2017",
author="Forslund, Marit V. and Roe, Cecilie and Perrin, Paul B. and Sigurdardottir, Solrun and Lu, Juan and Berntsen, Svein and Andelic, Nada",
volume="31",
number="3",
pages="329-335",
abstract="PRIMARY OBJECTIVES: To assess longitudinal trajectories of overall disability after moderate-to-severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) and to examine whether those trajectories could be predicted by socio-demographic and injury characteristics. <br><br>METHODS: Demographics and injury characteristics of 105 individuals with moderate-to-severe TBI were extracted from medical records. At the 1-, 2-, and 5-year follow-ups, TBI-related disability was assessed by the GOSE. A hierarchical linear model (HLM) was used to examine functional outcomes up to 5 years following injury and whether those outcomes could be predicted by: time, gender, age, relationship, education, employment pre-injury, occupation, GCS, cause of injury, length of post-traumatic amnesia (PTA), CT findings and injury severity score, as well as the interactions between each of these predictors and time. <br><br>RESULTS: Higher GOSE trajectories (lower disability) were predicted by younger age at injury and shorter PTA, as well as by the interaction terms of time*PTA and time*employment. Those who had been employed at injury decreased in disability over time, while those who had been unemployed increased in disability. <br><br>CONCLUSION: The study results support the view that individual factors generally outweigh injury-related factors as predictors of disability after TBI, except for PTA.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0269-9052",
doi="10.1080/02699052.2016.1255778",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02699052.2016.1255778"
}