Home Environment as a Predictor of Long-Term Executive Functioning following Early Childhood Traumatic Brain Injury.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

This study examined the relationship of the home environment to long-term executive functioning (EF) following early childhood traumatic brain injury (TBI).

Methods

Participants (N=134) were drawn from a larger parent study of 3- to 6-year-old children hospitalized for severe TBI (n=16), complicated mild/moderate TBI (n=44), or orthopedic injury (OI; n=74), recruited prospectively at four tertiary care hospitals in the United States and followed for an average of 6.8 years post-injury. Quality of the home environment, caregiver psychological distress, and general family functioning were assessed shortly after injury (i.e., early home) and again at follow-up (i.e., late home). Participants completed several performance-based measures of EF at follow-up. Hierarchica

SUBMITTER: Durish CL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6939301 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature