Multivariate Base Rates of Low Scores on Tests of Learning and Memory Among Latino Adult Populations.

Objective: To determine the prevalence of low scores for two neuropsychological tests with five total scores that evaluate learning and memory functions.

Method: N = 5402 healthy adults from 11 countries in Latin America and the commonwealth of Puerto Rico were administered the Rey-Osterrieth Complex Figure (ROCF) and the Hopkins Verbal Learning Test (HVLT-R). Two-thirds of the participants were women, and the average age was 53.

Family needs after brain injury: A cross cultural study.

Objective: The objective of this study was to explore differences by country in the importance of family needs after traumatic brain injury (TBI), as well as differences in met/unmet needs.

Method: Two hundred and seventy-one family members of an individual with TBI in Mexico, Colombia, Spain, Denmark, and Norway completed the Family Needs Questionnaire.

Results: Eight of the ten needs rated as most important globally were from the Health Information subscale.

Factors associated with depression and burden in Spanish speaking caregivers of individuals with traumatic brain injury.

Objective: To determine which factors are highly associated with burden and depression in a group of caregivers of persons with Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) in Colombia, South America.

Design: Prospective.

Participants: Fifty-one pairs of individuals with TBI and their caregivers from two major cities in Colombia completed a comprehensive psychosocial evaluation that included information related to patient and caregiver sociodemographic factors, patient factors, and caregiver estimation of patient neurobehavioral functioning.

The usefulness of self-generation to improve learning and memory in Spanish-speaking individuals with traumatic brain injury from Colombia.

Objective: To examine the effect of self-generation on learning and memory in Spanish-speaking individuals with traumatic brain injury (TBI).

Method: Thirty Spanish-speaking individuals with moderate-to-severe TBI and 31 healthy controls were recruited to read 32 individual sentences and required to remember the last word in each sentence. Target words were presented both in a self-generated and provided condition for each participant.

The ties that bind: the relationship between caregiver burden and the neuropsychological functioning of TBI survivors.

Advances in medical and assistive technology have increased the likelihood of survival following a traumatic brain injury (TBI). Consequently, families frequently must provide care to individuals with TBI. Because they are rarely prepared for the associated demanding medical needs and financial burden, family caregivers are at risk for physical and emotional problems, which can negatively influence their individual and family functioning.

Family needs in caregivers of individuals with traumatic brain injury from Colombia, South America.

Objective: The aim of the present study was to determine the most and least important family needs in a group of family caregivers of individuals with TBI from Cali, Colombia, and to examine which of those needs were more likely to be met and unmet.

Design: Cross-sectional descriptive study.

Setting: Valle University Hospital in Cali, Colombia.