Results: Descriptive statistics revealed that beginning master's students, graduating master's students, and the lay public all endorsed some misconceptions about TBI. A series of chi-square analyses revealed that the 3 groups demonstrated significant differences in response accuracy. Specifically, the lay public endorsed more misconceptions than both student groups, and the graduating master's students endorsed fewer misconceptions than the beginning master's students. Conclusion: Although education is effective in dispelling some common misconceptions about TBI, persistent endorsement of some erroneous beliefs continues. Direct training is needed to address these fallacies.
Primary objective
The researchers sought to determine whether individuals with impaired consciousness secondary to acquired brain injury (ABI) changed in responsiveness when purposefully presented with familiar, unfamiliar, and synthetic voice messages.
Research design
Researchers used an ABA single case study design across stimuli. Participants were 3 minimally-responsive ABI survivors.
Methods and procedures
Participants heard auditory stimuli two times daily for thirty days. Data from video recordings included tallies of behavioural responses at 10-second intervals throughout baseline, intervention, and post-intervention phases of each session. Statistical calculations allowed determination of responsiveness changes across time intervals within sessions.
Main outcomes and results
Unique response profiles emerged across survivors. Two participants demonstrated responsiveness changes with presentation of auditory stimuli. None demonstrated a clinically-significant differential response based on voice type.
Conclusions
Findings suggest that auditory stimulation results in arousal changes in some ABI survivors regardless of the familiarity of voices presented.
Much of what we know about stroke is limited to the first 5 years postinjury; however, the effects of having a stroke remain several years, even decades, postinjury, and the impact this has on an individual's quality of life over a long period of time is not completely understood.
Purpose
The purpose of this study was to understand one woman's experience living with the effects of stroke over multiple decades postinjury and to explore factors that affected her quality of life during this time.
Method
Using Grounded Theory methodology, data were drawn from 28 years of journals kept by the participant and from semistructured family interviews.
Results
Four major interacting themes emerged from the data: family support, faith, personality, and journaling. Findings are discussed in the context of resilience theory.
Acquired brain injury (ABI) affects social relationships; however, the ways social and support networks change and evolve as a result of brain injury is not well understood. This study explored ways in which survivors of ABI and members of their support networks perceive relationship changes as recovery extends into the long-term stage. Two survivors of ABI and members of their respective support networks participated in this case study integrating information from interviews, field notes, and artifacts. Inductive data analysis revealed themes of adjustment to impairments and compensations, connection changes with other people, feelings of protectiveness toward the survivor, emotional intensity, and the influence of personality traits on the recovery process. Application of these themes to intervention suggests health care professionals might benefit from shifting their focus from the survivor alone to the survivor functioning within a social support network.
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