Psychosocial adjustment and employment outcome 2, 5 and 10 years after TBI.

Objective: A patient's return to work has been considered a good indicator of his/her overall adaptation after suffering from TBI. A study has been designed at the Hospital del Trabajador to evaluate patients' psycho-pathological and social situations and to describe evolution and return-to-work predictors. Particular attention was paid to subjects' employment situations 2, 5 and 10 years after TBI.

Organic personality disorder after traumatic brain injury: cognitive, anatomic and psychosocial factors. A 6 month follow-up.

Objective: The purpose of the study is to describe psychosocial adjustment in patients who present Organic Personality Disorder (OPD) after TBI in relation to patients with TBI without OPD.

Method: The group included patients who were admitted as inpatients in the Neurology Service. Exclusion criteria were: previous personality disorders; previous alcohol and drugs addiction, history of head injury and other neurological diseases.

Emotional and psychosocial factors in burn patients during hospitalization.

This is a preliminary study of psychological symptoms, prior psychosocial adjustment and severity of injury in 25 consecutive burn patients. All had suffered burns in work-related accidents and were evaluated by the psychiatric consulation-liaison team during their initial hospitalization in the Burn Unit of the Hospital del Trabajador, Santiago. All patients were clinically evaluated and the following instruments were applied: Hamilton Scales of Anxiety (HAM-A) and Depression (HAM-D), Goldberg's General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-28), Cloninger's Tridimensional Personality Questionnaire (TPQ) and a modified version of a Schooler's Adjustment Scale.