Parent management of the school reintegration needs of children and youth following moderate or severe traumatic brain injury.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

School reintegration following children's traumatic brain injury (TBI) is still poorly understood from families' perspectives. We aimed to understand how both unique and common experiences during children's school reintegration were explained by parents to influence the family.

Methods

Data came from an investigation using descriptive phenomenology (2005-2007) to understand parents' experiences in the first five years following children's moderate to severe TBI. Parents (N = 42 from 37 families in the United States) participated in two 90-min interviews (first M = 15 months; second M = 27 months). Two investigators independently coded parents' discussions of school reintegration using content analysis to understand the unique and common factors that parents perceived

SUBMITTER: Roscigno CI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4277732 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature