Characteristics, Outcomes, Sex and Gender Considerations of Community-Based Physical Activity Interventions after Moderate-to-Severe Traumatic Brain Injury: Scoping Review.

Objective: This scoping review mapped the current evidence about community-based physical activity (PA) interventions for individuals with moderate-to-severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) and identified the reported health-related outcomes, measurement tools used, and considerations given to sex and gender.

Methods: Searches were conducted in six academic databases for peer-reviewed articles (MEDLINE, EMBASE, Cochrane CENTRAL, CINAHL, SPORTDiscus, and PEDro). PRISMA Scoping Review guidelines were followed.

Analysis of the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of the network form of organization of traumatic brain injury service delivery systems.

Unlabelled: Networks are an increasingly popular way to deal with the lack of integration of traumatic brain injury (TBI) care. Knowledge of the stakes of the network form of organization is critical in deciding whether or not to implement a TBI network to improve the continuity of TBI care.

Goals Of The Study: To report the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats of a TBI network and to consider these elements in a discussion about whether networks are a suitable solution to fragmented TBI care.

Assessment of organizational readiness for e-health in a rehabilitation centre.

Purpose: The aims of this study were to assess organizational readiness for e-health among the staff of an out-patient rehabilitation centre and to identify the personal characteristics of potential users that may have influenced readiness.

Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted with 137 clinicians, 28 managers, and 47 nonclinical staff in a rehabilitation centre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. All participants completed a self-administered questionnaire assessing organizational readiness for e-health.

Recommendations for the use of common outcome measures in pediatric traumatic brain injury research.

This article addresses the need for age-relevant outcome measures for traumatic brain injury (TBI) research and summarizes the recommendations by the inter-agency Pediatric TBI Outcomes Workgroup. The Pediatric Workgroup's recommendations address primary clinical research objectives including characterizing course of recovery from TBI, prediction of later outcome, measurement of treatment effects, and comparison of outcomes across studies. Consistent with other Common Data Elements (CDE) Workgroups, the Pediatric TBI Outcomes Workgroup adopted the standard three-tier system in its selection of measures.

Consensus group sessions: a useful method to reconcile stakeholders' perspectives about network performance evaluation.

Background: Having a common vision among network stakeholders is an important ingredient to developing a performance evaluation process. Consensus methods may be a viable means to reconcile the perceptions of different stakeholders about the dimensions to include in a performance evaluation framework.

Objectives: To determine whether individual organizations within traumatic brain injury (TBI) networks differ in perceptions about the importance of performance dimensions for the evaluation of TBI networks and to explore the extent to which group consensus sessions could reconcile these perceptions.

Perceptions of traumatic brain injury network participants about network performance.

Background: Networks have been implemented within trauma systems to overcome problems of fragmentation and lack of coordination. Such networks regroup many types of organizations that could have different perceptions of network performance. No study has explored the perceptions of traumatic brain injury (TBI) network participants regarding network performance.

[Development of the French Canadian version of the Montgomery Borgatta caregiver burden scale].

Assessing the burden linked to caring for the frail elderly is becoming an important issue in rehabilitation. The purpose of this study was to translate/validate the Montgomery Borgatta Caregiver Burden Scale into French for use in Canada. This easy-to-use questionnaire evaluates aspects of burden such as objective, subjective stress and subjective demand burden.

Identifying the specific needs of adolescents after a mild traumatic brain injury: a service provider perspective.

Primary Objective: To identify the specific service needs of adolescents with mild traumatic brain injury (MTBI) and those of their parents through the perspective of expert service providers as well as to compare it to the perspective of adolescents and their parents obtained in a prior study.

Study Design: Qualitative design including a focus group held with experts in the field of adolescent TBI and a validation survey of other professionals.

Methods And Procedures: Eight experts from a variety of disciplines participated in a focus group where important needs of adolescents were discussed.

Previous head injury is a risk factor for subsequent head injury in children: a longitudinal cohort study.

Objective: The objective of this study was to determine whether children who sought care for a head injury were at greater risk of having a subsequent head injury within the following 6 and 12 months compared with children who sought care for an injury other than to the head.

Design/setting: This was a longitudinal cohort study conducted in the emergency departments of 2 Montreal (Quebec, Canada) pediatric hospitals.

Participants: The parents of 11,867 injured children aged 1 to 18 years were interviewed by telephone at 6 (n = 10,315) and 12 (n = 9486) months after their child's injury to ascertain outcome (ie, subsequent head injury) and to provide information on potential risk factors (age, gender, chronic medical condition, activity level, and socioeconomic status).

The reliability of the time to execute various forms of the finger-to-nose test in healthy subjects.

The objective of this study was to establish reliability estimates of different versions of the Finger-to-Nose test (FNT) using the generalisability theory. Generalizability theory was used to estimate the relative contribution of trials and occasions to the total measurement error and to generate reliability coefficients. Forty-two healthy adults (aged 20-63 yrs old) free of arm pain or other pathology participated.

Norms for 15- to 34-year-olds for different versions of the finger-to-nose test.

Objectives: To develop norms for the time to execute different versions of the finger-to-nose test (FNT) and to determine the effects of different testing procedures on performance in people aged 15 to 34 years.

Design: Cross-sectional.

Setting: Research center.

Evaluating clients' perceptions of the quality of head injury rehabilitation services: development and validation of a questionnaire.

Objective: The objective of this research was to develop a tool to assess clients' perception of the quality of head injury rehabilitation services.

Methods And Results: A questionnaire PQRS-Montreal 1.0 was developed in Montreal, Quebec using a standardized methodology that incorporated a new technique to reach consensus regarding the tool's contents.

Reliability associated with the abstraction of data from medical records for inclusion in an information system for persons with a traumatic brain injury.

Objective: This article presents the intra- and inter-rater reliability associated with the extraction, from medical rehabilitation charts, of data to be included in a head injury information system currently under development.

Methods: A data collection form was developed to facilitate and standardize the data extraction. Two clinicians extracted information pertaining to 231 variables of the system from 15 charts of persons receiving rehabilitation services following a head injury.