Publications by authors named "A Charles Rabinowitz"
Adherence to high-frequency ecological momentary assessment in persons with moderate-to-severe traumatic brain injury.
J Int Neuropsychol Soc
October 2024
Article Synopsis
- Ecological momentary assessment (EMA) is a method of collecting real-time self-reported data through smartphones, which holds promise for studying behaviors and experiences in individuals with cognitive impairments, like those from traumatic brain injury (TBI).
- This study explored adherence to a 7-week EMA protocol involving responses five times daily from participants with moderate-to-severe TBI, finding an overall response rate of 65% that decreased slightly over time.
- Results indicated that better educational background and episodic memory correlated with higher response rates, highlighting the need for personalized approaches to improve adherence among individuals with varying levels of cognitive challenges.
Objective: To create a census-based composite neighborhood socioeconomic deprivation index (NSDI) from geocoded residential addresses and to quantify how NSDI aligns with individual-level socioeconomic factors among people with traumatic brain injury (TBI).
Setting: Community.
Participants: People enrolled in the TBI Model Systems National Database (TBIMS NDB).
Unlabelled: Infection control measures to prevent viral and bacterial infection spread are critical to maintaining a healthy environment. Pathogens such as viruses and pyogenic bacteria can cause infectious complications. Viruses such as SARS-CoV-2 are known to spread through the aerosol route and on fomite surfaces, lasting for a prolonged time in the environment.
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View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To describe the incidence of self-reported COVID-19 history in a longitudinal cohort of individuals with complicated mild to severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) and describe demographic, injury and functional differences based on history of COVID-19 infection.
Design: Individuals with complicated mild to severe TBI aged 16 or older at time of injury who were enrolled in the TBI Model Systems longitudinal cohort study, completed a baseline or follow-up interview between October 1, 2021-March 31, 2023, and provided information about COVID-19 history and timing of COVID-19 infection was collected.
Results: Of the 3,627 individuals included in the analysis, 29.