TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2011//
TI  - Demographic and Injury-Related Moderators of Memory and Achievement Outcome in Pediatric TBI
JO  - Applied neuropsychology
A1  - Lajiness-O'Neill, Renee
A1  - Erdodi, Laszlo
A1  - Bigler, Erin D.
SP  - 298
EP  - 308
VL  - 18
IS  - 4
N2  - Critical factors affecting traumatic brain injury (TBI) outcome in children and adolescents are explored with an emphasis on an examination of age at injury as a predictor of memory functioning. Age at injury and other injury-related and demographic predictors (i.e., severity, time postinjury, gender, and socioeconomic status [SES]) of memory and achievement outcome were examined in 65 children and adolescents post-TBI compared to 65 age-matched noninjured controls. Although robust findings have been found for age at injury as a general predictor of outcome, age was not found to be a significant predictor of memory functioning following pediatric TBI. Structural equation modeling suggests that the most parsimonious model of post-TBI outcome contains two causally related latent variables: one defined by gender, SES, injury severity, and age at injury, and one defined by general cognitive functioning.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0908-4282
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09084282.2011.595457
ID  - ref1
ER  -