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Self-awareness and traumatic brain injury outcome
| Content Provider | Scilit |
|---|---|
| Author | Robertson, Kayela Schmitter-Edgecombe, Maureen |
| Copyright Year | 2015 |
| Description | Primary objective: Impaired self-awareness following a traumatic brain injury (TBI) can reduce the effectiveness of rehabilitation, resulting in poorer outcomes. However, little is understood about how the multi-dimensional aspects of self-awareness may differentially change with recovery and impact outcome. Thus, this study examined four self-awareness variables represented in the Dynamic Comprehensive Model of Awareness: metacognitive awareness, anticipatory awareness, error-monitoring and self-regulation. Research design: This study evaluated change of the self-awareness measures with recovery from TBI and whether the self-awareness measures predicted community re-integration at follow-up. Methods and procedures: Participants were 90 individuals with moderate-to-severe TBI who were tested acutely following injury and 90 age-matched controls. Forty-nine of the TBI participants and 49 controls were re-tested after 6 months. Main outcome and results: Results revealed that the TBI group's error-monitoring performance was significantly poorer than controls at both baseline and follow-up. Regression analyses revealed that the self-awareness variables at follow-up were predictive of community re-integration, with error-monitoring being a unique predictor. Conclusions: The results highlight the importance of error-monitoring and suggest that interventions targeted at improving error-monitoring may be particularly beneficial. Understanding the multi-dimensional nature of self-awareness will further improve rehabilitation efforts and understanding of the theoretical basis of self-awareness. |
| Related Links | http://europepmc.org/articles/pmc4769700?pdf=render https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4769700/pdf https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.3109/02699052.2015.1005135 |
| Ending Page | 858 |
| Page Count | 11 |
| Starting Page | 848 |
| ISSN | 02699052 |
| e-ISSN | 1362301X |
| DOI | 10.3109/02699052.2015.1005135 |
| Journal | Brain Injury |
| Issue Number | 7-8 |
| Volume Number | 29 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited |
| Publisher Date | 2015-04-27 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Journal: Brain Injury Rehabilitation Awareness Community Integration Outcome Self-awareness Traumatic Brain Injury |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
| Subject | Neuroscience Developmental and Educational Psychology Neurology (clinical) |
