How Stable Is Coping in Patients with Neuropsychiatric Symptoms after Acquired Brain Injury? Changes in Coping Styles and Their Predictors in the Chronic Phase.

The objective of the study was to examine changes in coping and their predictors in patients in the chronic phase after an acquired brain injury with prominent neuropsychiatric symptoms. Patients with brain injury were recruited from consecutive admissions to the outpatient clinics of four mental health centers in the Netherlands. Patients received psychoeducation and/or one or more individual treatment sessions that were not targeting coping styles.

Associations between executive functioning, coping, and psychosocial functioning after acquired brain injury.

Objectives: To examine the relationships between executive functioning, coping, depressive symptoms, and quality of life in individuals with neuropsychiatric symptoms after acquired brain injury (ABI).

Design: Cross-sectional study.

Methods: Individuals (n = 93) in the post-acute and chronic phase (>3 months) after ABI and their significant others (N = 58) were recruited from outpatient clinics of four mental health centres in the Netherlands.

Impaired awareness of deficits in individuals with neuropsychiatric symptoms after acquired brain injury: associations with treatment motivation and depressive symptoms.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to investigate impaired awareness of deficits in relation to treatment motivation and depressive symptoms in patients with neuropsychiatric symptoms after acquired brain injury.

Method: The study had a Cross-sectional design with 93 outpatient brain injury patients with neuropsychiatric symptoms in the chronic phase after injury. Awareness was measured by the discrepancy in answers between patients and significant others and/or clinicians.

Changes in self-reported pre- to postinjury coping styles in the first 3 years after traumatic brain injury and the effects on psychosocial and emotional functioning and quality of life.

Objective: To examine the influence of self-reported preinjury coping on postinjury coping, psychosocial functioning, emotional functioning, and quality of life at 1 year following traumatic brain injury (TBI).

Setting: Inpatient hospital and community.

Participants: One hundred seventy-four participants with TBI.

Assessments of coping after acquired brain injury: a systematic review of instrument conceptualization, feasibility, and psychometric properties.

Objective: To identify measures of coping styles used by patients with acquired brain injury; to evaluate the conceptualization, feasibility, and psychometric properties of the instruments; and to provide guidance for researchers and clinicians in the choice of a suitable instrument.

Design: Systematic review.

Results: The search identified 47 instruments, of which 14 were selected.

Evidence-based cognitive rehabilitation after acquired brain injury: a systematic review of content of treatment.

We reviewed all randomised trials on cognitive rehabilitation in order to determine the effective elements in terms of patients' and treatment characteristics, treatment goals and outcome. A total of 95 random controlled trials were included from January 1980 until August 2010 studying 4068 patients in total. Most studies had been conducted on language (n = 25), visuospatial functioning (n = 24), and memory (n = 14).

Changes in the coping styles of spouses and the influence of these changes on their psychosocial functioning the first year after a patient's stroke.

Objective: The objective of this study was to examine the changes in spouses' coping styles that occur in the first year after a patient's stroke and the influence of these changes on the spouses' psychosocial functioning.

Methods: A total of 211 spouses of patients with stroke were assessed at three different time points using self-reported questionnaires (at the time of the patient's admission to inpatient rehabilitation, 2 months after discharge and 1 year poststroke). We used linear mixed-model and multiple linear regression analyses to analyse the data.

Coping styles within the family system in the chronic phase following acquired brain injury: its relation to families' and patients' functioning.

Objective: To investigate how the functioning of family members and the coping styles they use are related to the psychosocial functioning both of the family members and of the person who has sustained a brain injury.

Design: Cross-sectional study.

Subjects: Primary caregivers (n = 61) and other family members (n = 15) of 61 patients with brain injury.