Impaired awareness of deficits and treatment adherence among people with traumatic brain injury or spinal cord injury.

Objective: To examine the relation between impaired awareness of deficits (IAD) and treatment adherence and to verify previous findings regarding the types of disabilities that people with traumatic brain injury (TBI) tend to underestimate.

Design: Cross-sectional study.

Participants: Twenty-four persons with moderate to severe TBI and 16 persons with traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI) admitted to an inpatient neurorehabilitation program.