Validation of the QOLIBRI - Quality of Life after Brain Injury questionnaire in patients after TBI in Israel.

Background: The QOLIBRI - Quality of Life after Brain Injury questionnaire was developed by the QOLIBRI Task Force (QTF). Our goal was to investigate the applicability, validity and reliability of the QOLIBRI in Israel.

Methods: Validation of the Hebrew questionnaire was performed after it had been administered to 128 adults with traumatic brain injury (TBI), who were between 3 months' and 15 years' post-discharge from rehabilitation.

Quality of life in persons after traumatic brain injury as self-perceived and as perceived by the caregivers.

The primary aim of the study was to adopt QOLIBRI (quality of life after brain injury) questionnaire in a proxy version (Q-Pro), i.e., to use caregivers for comparison and to evaluate whether TBI patients' judgment corresponds to that of their caregivers since the possible self-awareness deficit of the persons with TBI.

Interpreting Quality of Life after Brain Injury Scores: Cross-Walk with the Short Form-36.

The Quality of Life after Brain Injury (QOLIBRI) instruments are traumatic brain injury (TBI)-specific assessments of health-related quality of life (HRQoL), with established validity and reliability. The purpose of the study is to help improve the interpretability of the two QOLIBRI summary scores (the QOLIBRI Total score and the QOLBRI Overall Scale [OS] score). An analysis was conducted of 761 patients with TBI who took part in the QOLIBRI validation studies.

Assessment of Health-Related Quality of Life after TBI: Comparison of a Disease-Specific (QOLIBRI) with a Generic (SF-36) Instrument.

Psychosocial, emotional, and physical problems can emerge after traumatic brain injury (TBI), potentially impacting health-related quality of life (HRQoL). Until now, however, neither the discriminatory power of disease-specific (QOLIBRI) and generic (SF-36) HRQoL nor their correlates have been compared in detail. These aspects as well as some psychometric item characteristics were studied in a sample of 795 TBI survivors.

Rehabilitation following cerebral anoxia: An assessment of 27 patients.

Objectives: (1) To evaluate cognitive and emotional impairments, disability and quality-of-life for adults with cerebral anoxia institutionalized in residential care facilities. (2) To evaluate the efficacy of medication, psychotherapy, support group and therapeutic activities.

Methods: Twenty-seven persons with cerebral anoxia were recruited, on average 8 years post-injury.

Screening for cognitive and affective dysfunction in patients suspected of mild cognitive impairment.

Objective: Disturbances of affect expression and perception, as well as accuracy of predicting memory difficulties, have been reported in various brain dysfunctional groups. Screening tests of higher cerebral functions seldom sample these dimensions. The goal of this study was to determine if patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) of the amnestic type would demonstrate impairments in these domains, as well as show expected memory deficits.

Performance of a French sample on the French translation of the BNI screen for higher cerebral functions.

Objective: To obtain normative data using a French translation of the BNI Screen for Higher Cerebral Functions (BNIS) administered to French-speaking individuals.

Methods: Recruitment and administration of the BNIS to a convenience sample of 167 French-speaking individuals between the ages of 15-84 years.

Results: Mean BNIS total score for a French sample was within 1 point of what was observed in the original standardization study using 200 English-speaking controls.

Comparison of subjective and objective assessments of outcome after traumatic brain injury using the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF).

Purpose: The aim is to examine two aspects of outcome after traumatic brain injury (TBI). Functional outcome was assessed by the Glasgow Outcome Scale - Extended (GOSE) and by clinician ratings, while health-related quality of life (HRQoL) was assessed by the Quality of Life after Brain Injury (QOLIBRI).

Method: The GOSE and the QOLIBRI were linked to the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) to analyse their content.

Community integration following severe childhood traumatic brain injury.

Purpose Of Review: Severe childhood traumatic brain injury (TBI) is the leading cause of death and acquired disability in children, causing impairments in children's sensory-motor, cognitive and behavioural functioning, with devastating consequences on community integration. Community integration is the ultimate goal of rehabilitation; it is a complex outcome, with many variables contributing to it.

Recent Findings: Community integration and quality of life (QOL) are lower in children who sustained severe TBI at a younger age.

Community integration after severe traumatic brain injury in adults.

Purpose Of Review: Despite being the main cause of death and disability in young adults, traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a rather neglected epidemic. Community integration of persons with TBI was, until recently, insufficiently informed by clinical research.

Recent Findings: To bridge the gap between rehabilitation and community re-entry, the first task is to assess the person, using TBI-specific outcome measures.

Quality of life after traumatic brain injury: the clinical use of the QOLIBRI, a novel disease-specific instrument.

Objective: To report the clinical use of the QOLIBRI, a disease-specific measure of health-related quality-of-life (HRQoL) after traumatic brain injury (TBI).

Methods: The QOLIBRI, with 37 items in six scales (cognition, self, daily life and autonomy, social relationships, emotions and physical problems) was completed by 795 patients in six languages (Finnish, German, Italian, French, English and Dutch). QOLIBRI scores were examined by variables likely to be influenced by rehabilitation interventions and included socio-demographic, functional outcome, health status and mental health variables.

Quality of Life after Brain Injury (QOLIBRI): scale development and metric properties.

The consequences of traumatic brain injury (TBI) for health-related quality of life (HRQoL) are poorly investigated, and a TBI-specific instrument has not previously been available. The cross-cultural development of a new measure to assess HRQoL after TBI is described here. An international TBI Task Force derived a conceptual model from previous work, constructed an initial item bank of 148 items, and then reduced the item set through two successive multicenter validation studies.

Social reintegration of traumatic brain-injured: the French experience.

Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) may lead to specific handicap, often hidden, mainly due to cognitive and behavioural sequelae. Social re-entry is a long-term, fluctuant and precarious process. The French experience will be illustrated by 6 initiatives answering to 6 challenges to do with TBI specificities:1.

The QOLIBRI--towards a quality of life tool after traumatic brain injury: current developments in Asia.

Introduction: There is no disease-specific health-related quality of life (HRQoL) tool devoted to traumatic brain injury (TBI).

Material And Methods: Over 1500 TBI patients from 10 countries filled out a preliminary version of the QOLIBRI taking TBI specificities into account. 3 successive versions and consecutive statistical analyses were necessary to get a psychometrically-reliable tool.

Quality of life in patients with traumatic brain injury-basic issues, assessment and recommendations.

Introduction: Traumatic brain injuries (TBI) are one of the most common consequences of traffic accidents. Patients with mild, moderate or severe brain injuries suffer from physical, cognitive, behavioral, emotional and social problems. Most of these problems have been a long standing focus amongst practitioners and researchers.

[Organic personality syndrome in multiple sclerosis and effect of stress on recurrent attacks].

This study focuses on a sample of 35 patients who had recently suffered an attack of multiple sclerosis. They were first subjected to the so-called life stress method in order to look for a connection between life stresses and the attacks of multiple sclerosis. The sample was compared with a paired control population composed of patients recruited from admission departments and medical emergency departments.

A European head injury evaluation chart.

In 1988, 40 experts (physicians, psychologists, social workers, lawyers, family association representatives...

[Traumatic amnesias. Memory disorders consecutive to head injuries].

Traumatic amnesia is a good index predictive of the disablement due sequelae of cranial injuries. The residual memory deficit, correlated with the return to work, mainly affects long-term memory, learning, verbal memory and sensitivity to interferences. The most relevant tests are Rey's 15 words--and particularly their retrieval at 30 minutes--and the verbal fluency test, but the changes in memory observed in the patient's daily life must also be evaluated.

[Intellectual and mood disorders in multiple sclerosis].

Reports of frequency and interpretation of intellectual and mood disorders differ in multiple sclerosis (MS). Forty-one patients with MS defined according to MacAlpine's criteria were evaluated by psychometric tests (WAIS) and neuropsychologic examinations (study of language, gnosic and praxic activities, dynamic gestural organization, memory and learning) together with, in 24 of them, the AMDP psychopathologic rating scale. Intellectual disorders were noted in 65 p.

[Focal chronic ischemia and concomitant migraine: an atypical form of Sturge-Weber angiomatosis?].

A young man with a left hemifacial hemangioma had during a six months period about forty left hemispheric neurologic attacks suggestive of classic migraine. The neurologic examination was normal during the attack-free period. The CT scan (fig.