Peritraumatic Context and Long-Term Outcomes of Concussion.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

There has been a great deal of interest in mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and their association with one another, yet their interaction and subsequent associations with long-term outcomes remain poorly understood.

Objective

To compare the long-term outcomes of mTBI that occurred in the context of psychological trauma (peritraumatic context) with mTBI that did not (nonperitraumatic context).

Design, setting, and participants

This cohort study of post-9/11 US veterans used data from the Translational Research Center for Traumatic Brain Injury and Stress Disorders (TRACTS) study at the Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System, which began in 2009; the current study utilized data from baseline TRACTS visits conducte

SUBMITTER: Van Etten EJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11755194 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature