Health status and psychological outcomes after trauma: A prospective multicenter cohort study.

Introduction: Survival after trauma has considerably improved. This warrants research on non-fatal outcome. We aimed to identify characteristics associated with both short and long-term health status (HS) after trauma and to describe the recovery patterns of HS and psychological outcomes during 24 months of follow-up.

Prevalence and Prognostic Factors for Psychological Distress After Trauma.

Objective: To describe the prevalence and prognostic factors of symptoms of anxiety and depression and posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) after injury in the clinical trauma population.

Design: Multicenter, prospective, observational cohort study.

Setting: Ten hospitals in Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands.

Effect of frailty on quality of life in elderly patients after hip fracture: a longitudinal study.

Objectives: The aims of this study were to examine the pattern of changes over time in health status (HS) and quality of life (QoL) in the first year after hip fracture and to quantify the association between frailty at the onset of hip fracture and the change in HS and QoL 1 year later. The major hypothesis was that frailty, a clinical state of increased vulnerability, is a good predictor of QoL in patients recovering from hip fracture.

Design: Prospective, observational, follow-up cohort study.

Comparison of pre-injury recalled Health Status (HS) data of trauma patients and HS of the general population.

Purpose: Significant differences exist between retrospectively collected pre-injury Health Status (HS) of trauma patients and the HS of the general population. Compared to the general population, the trauma population includes a larger proportion of individuals with a low level of socio-economic status. The aim was to compare retrospectively collected pre-injury HS with HS of a sample of Dutch individuals not only adjusted for age and gender, but also for educational level.

Perceived Changes in Quality of Life in Trauma Patients: A Focus Group Study.

Quality of life (QoL) following a physical trauma is still insufficiently known from a patient perspective. The aim of this study was to qualitatively report perceived changes in QoL after trauma. Focus groups were conducted.

Screening Poststroke Fatigue; Feasibility and Validation of an Instrument for the Screening of Poststroke Fatigue throughout the Rehabilitation Process.

Objective: Our objective is to investigate the feasibility and validity of a new instrument to screen for determinants of poststroke fatigue during the rehabilitation process.

Design And Setting: This prospective cohort study was conducted within the stroke department of a rehabilitation center.

Participants: The participants in the study were postacute adult stroke patients.

The effects of mental practice in neurological rehabilitation; a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Objective: To investigate the beneficial and adverse effects of a mental practice intervention on activities, cognition, and emotion in patients after stroke, patients with Parkinson's disease or multiple sclerosis.

Methods: Electronic databases PubMed/Medline, PEDro, Science Direct, Cochrane Library, PsycINFO, Rehadat, Embase, and Picarta were searched until June 2012. Fourteen randomized controlled trials in stroke and two randomized controlled trials in Parkinson's disease were included, representing 491 patients (421 with stroke).