PSYC33H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4.1: Traumatic Brain Injury, Glasgow Coma Scale, Logistic Regression
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Prevalence, comorbidities, and correlates of challenging behavior among community-dwelling. Adults with severe traumatic brain injury: a multicenter study. Main point: challenging behaviors are widespread among community-dwelling adults with severe traumatic brain injury. Services need to deliver integrated anger management, social skills, and motivational treatments. Objective: investigate the prevalence, comorbidities, and correlates of challenging behaviors among clients of the new south wales brain injury rehabilitation program. Setting: all community-based rehabilitation services of the statewide program. Participants: five hundred seven active clients with severe traumatic brain injury. Results: overall prevalence rate of challenging behaviors was 54%. Tbi is the leading cause of mortality/morbidity globally. Disorders of behavioural regulation occur as a result: range from impulsivity to inhibition, to apathy to inertia, behaviours resulting from these disorders are considered challenging . However that descriptor had been applied broadly, so this study wanted to solve this problem. Profound consequences: disrupting an individual"s independence, interpersonal relationships, community integration, and occupational functioning.
