Patterns of Cognitive Test Scores and Symptom Complaints in Persons with TBI Who Failed Performance Validity Testing.

Objective: To determine clinically meaningful subgroups of persons with traumatic brain injury (TBI) who have failed performance validity testing.

Method: Study participants were selected from a cohort of 674 participants with definitive medical evidence of TBI. Participants were those who failed performance validity testing (the Word Memory Test, using the standard cutoffs).

The Discrepancy Between Cognitive Complaints and Neuropsychological Test Findings in Persons With Traumatic Brain Injury.

Objective: To better identify variables related to discrepancies between subjective cognitive complaints and objective neuropsychological findings in persons with traumatic brain injury (TBI).

Setting: Three rehabilitation centers in the United States.

Participants: In total, 504 community-dwelling adult survivors of TBI following discharge from inpatient rehabilitation.

The relationship between resilience, emotional distress, and community participation outcomes following traumatic brain injury.

: To determine how resilience is associated with social participation outcomes in persons with traumatic brain injury (TBI), in the context of emotional distress, demographics, and injury-related factors.: Individuals with a history of TBI recruited the following stay at three rehabilitation facilities in the USA.: 201 community-dwelling persons with medically documented TBI ranging in severity from mild to severe.

User satisfaction with lower limb wearable robotic exoskeletons.

: To provide the results of a robotic exoskeleton user satisfaction questionnaire completed by participants utilizing two robotic exoskeletons.: Seven individuals with physical disabilities engaged in two exoskeleton-assisted training phases with the REX and the Ekso 1.1 (Ekso), after which they completed a user satisfaction questionnaire.

Gender differences in employment and economic quality of life following traumatic brain injury.

Objective: Due to limited systematic research on gender differences in health and quality of life outcomes following traumatic brain injury (TBI), the present study sought to contribute to the growing literature on gender differences in postinjury employment while also adding an examination of postinjury economic quality of life, an emerging area in disability research.

Method: Independent variables included demographic and injury characteristics. Outcome variables included postinjury employment and economic quality of life, measured by the Participation Assessment With Recombined Tools-Objective and the Economic QOL, respectively.

Responsiveness of the Traumatic Brain Injury-Quality of Life (TBI-QOL) Measurement System.

Objective: To assess the responsiveness of the Traumatic Brain Injury-Quality of Life (TBI-QOL) measurement system.

Design: Participants completed the 20 TBI-QOL item banks and the Participation Assessment with Recombined Tools-Objective (PART-O) Productivity Subscale at baseline and 6-month follow-up assessments. Participants were categorized into 4 groups (increased productivity, unchanged productivity, and decreased productivity) based on PART-O Productivity scores.

Conceptual Structure of Health-Related Quality of Life for Persons With Traumatic Brain Injury: Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the TBI-QOL.

Objective: To determine the factor structure of the Traumatic Brain Injury-Quality of Life (TBI-QOL) measurement system.

Design: Observational.

Setting: 3 TBI Model Systems rehabilitation centers.

The Patient Health Questionnaire depression screener in spinal cord injury.

Context: Although depression is not inevitable following spinal cord injury/dysfunction (SCI/D), it can have a negative impact on rehabilitation. Evidence-based assessment of depression utilizing self-report instruments, such as the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9), is considered good clinical practice. Although the PHQ-9 has been studied in individuals with SCI/D, little is known about the clinical utility of the Patient Health Questionnaire-2 (PHQ-2).

Resilience, Pain Interference, and Upper Limb Loss: Testing the Mediating Effects of Positive Emotion and Activity Restriction on Distress.

Objective: To test mediating effects of positive emotion and activity restriction on the associations of resilience and pain interference with distress reported by individuals with traumatic upper limb loss evaluated for prosthetics.

Design: Cross-sectional correlational study of several demographic and self-report measures of resilience, pain interference, activity restriction, positive emotions, and symptoms of depression and posttraumatic stress.

Setting: Six regional centers throughout the United States.

Development, reliability, and validity of the Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Interview for Vietnamese refugees: a diagnostic instrument for Vietnamese refugees.

The Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Interview for Vietnamese Refugees (PTSD-IVR) was created specifically to assess for the presence of current and lifetime history of premigration, migration, encampment, and postmigration traumas in Vietnamese refugees. The purpose of the present study was to describe the development of and investigate the interrater and test-retest reliability of the PTSD-IVR and its validity in relation to the diagnoses obtained from the Longitudinal, Expert, and All Data (LEAD; Spitzer, 1983) standard. Clinicians conducted the diagnosis process with 127 Vietnamese refugees using the LEAD standard and the PTSD-IVR.

Outcome measure to assess head-down bed rest subject performance.

Background: The purpose of the present study was to develop an objective outcome measure to assess the performance of head-down bed rest subjects. The rationale behind the development was that the current outcome measure is subjective and dependent upon how much the clinical psychologist knows about subject behaviors during the study to rate them accurately.

Methods: The behaviorally anchored rating scales (BARS) were developed through the use of the critical incident technique, along with traditional BARS development procedures, and the use of focus groups.