Telephone-based goal management training for adults with mild traumatic brain injury: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Approximately 1 million individuals experience a mild traumatic brain injury (TBI) and cost the United States nearly $17 billion each year. Many trauma survivors with mild TBI have debilitating and long-term physical, emotional, and cognitive impairments that are unrecognized at trauma centers. Early intervention studies are needed to address these impairments, especially cognitive deficits in executive functioning. Goal management training (GMT) is a structured cognitive rehabilitation program that has been found to improve executive functioning in patients with moderate to severe TBI. The current study adapted the GMT program for telephone delivery in order to improve the accessibility of rehabilitation services in a patient population with multiple barriers to care an

SUBMITTER: Archer KR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4454274 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature