Test Scores Appear Related to Productivity One Year Following Injury
Categories: Cognition - Thinking and Emotional Skills
What is the relationship between scores on tests of mental abilities and employment or school attendance one year after an individual’s traumatic brain injury?
Past Studies
Past Studies demonstrate that traumatic brain injuries can affect the way individuals think, act, and feel. Thinking skills and behavior problems can limit an individual’s productivity, including the ability to work or attend school. Clinicians use neuropsychological tests to assess the impact of brain injury on mental abilities. Predicting productivity loss and recovery is a very complex process. Past studies have shown that neuropsychological test scores taken early after an injury
This Study
This study analyzed information from the 17 Traumatic Brain Injury Model Systems’ databases for 518 individuals. The individuals received traumatic brain injury inpatient rehabilitation. The researchers conducted a series of neuropsychological tests on the individuals one year from their injury date. At the time of their tests, the researchers asked if the individuals were employed or attending school.The researchers found that individuals’ neuropsychological test scores at one year following injury were related to their current
Who May Be Affected By These Findings
Individuals with traumatic brain injuries and their loved ones, community integration specialists, rehabilitation personnel, researchers.
Caveats
The researchers state that there are other factors besides an individual’s ability to perform a job that
Bottom Line
The researchers found that individuals’ neuropsychological test scores at one year following injury were related to their current
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