TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1995//
TI  - Traumatic brain injury: factors predicting return to work or school
JO  - Brain injury
A1  - Ip, R. Y.
A1  - Dornan, J.
A1  - Schentag, C.
SP  - 517
EP  - 532
VL  - 9
IS  - 5
N2  - Prediction of outcome for brain-injured individuals will facilitate effective rehabilitation programme planning which will ultimately improve the patient's quality of life. A sample of traumatic brain-injured subjects who had completed their rehabilitation were contacted post-discharge to identify predictive factors for return to work/school. Subjects were given a telephone interview and their charts were examined retrospectively along five subsets of variables in the predictive matrix: sociodemographics, chronicity, indices of severity, physical impairment, and cognitive functioning. Forty-five subjects were used as the study sample to investigate their vocational and educational outcome, and to generate the best predictive model for return to work/school. Twenty subjects made up the test sample used to evaluate the generalizability of the predictive model. Performance IQ score of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Revised emerged as the most significant predictor of return to work/school. Implications of these findings for treatment and rehabilitation are discussed.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0269-9052
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -