Publications by authors named "Jillian L Mazzocca"

Purpose: To evaluate the relationship between resilience, as measured by the Brief Resilience Scale (BRS), and patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) after primary anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction (ACLR).

Methods: A cohort of 72 patients undergoing primary ACLR were followed for a minimum of 2 years. Preoperative BRS scores were collected, and patients were categorized into low resilience (LR), normal resilience (NR), and high resilience (HR).

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Introduction: Resilience is a person's capacity to overcome adversity. The purpose was to determine what patient factors correlate with resilience using the Brief Resilience Score. We hypothesize that characteristics of female sex, younger age, Workers' Compensation status, and preoperative opioid use are predictors of a lower preoperative resilience score and that patients with positive psychosocial factors would have higher resilience scores.

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