Recovery and adaptation after traumatic brain injury in New Zealand: Longitudinal qualitative findings over the first two years.

Knowledge about the impacts of traumatic brain injury (TBI) and aspects that influence recovery and adaptation are key to understanding how best to provide appropriate services. Whilst injury experiences have been documented, factors that help or hinder recovery and adaptation over time and across injury severities remain unclear. We present overarching findings addressing these matters in a large longitudinal qualitative study of recovery and adaptation following TBI.

Living Life After Traumatic Brain Injury: Phase 1 of a Longitudinal Qualitative Study.

Objective: To explore what helps and hinders recovery and adaptation after disabling traumatic brain injury (TBI) and make recommendations for improving service responsiveness.

Design: A longitudinal qualitative descriptive study across all TBI severities.

Setting: Community.

Optimising qualitative longitudinal analysis: Insights from a study of traumatic brain injury recovery and adaptation.

Knowledge about aspects that influence recovery and adaptation in the postacute phase of disabling health events is key to understanding how best to provide appropriate rehabilitation and health services. Qualitative longitudinal research makes it possible to look for patterns, key time points and critical moments that could be vital for interventions and supports. However, strategies that support robust data management and analysis for longitudinal qualitative research in health-care are not well documented in the literature.

Identifying an outcome measure to assess the impact of Mobility Dogs.

Purpose: Mobility Dogs® trains dogs to work with people with physical disabilities to increase independence, confidence, self-esteem and participation. Mobility Dogs® seeks to critically evaluate and improve its services as it grows. This study aimed to identify and implement a standardised outcome measure into practice at Mobility Dogs®.

Living well with disability: needs, values and competing factors.

Background: Obesity is more prevalent for disabled people (estimated as being between 27-62%) compared to the general population (17-22%). Disabled people are more likely to report poorer general health and acquire a range of obesity-related secondary conditions. Although there are many physical activity and nutrition initiatives aimed at obesity prevention, little is known about whether these options are relevant and accessible for disabled people.