Interrelationships Between Post-TBI Employment and Substance Abuse: A Cross-lagged Structural Equation Modeling Analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To describe the interrelationship of postinjury employment and substance abuse (SA) among individuals with traumatic brain injury.

Design

Structural equation model (SEM) and logistic regression analytic approach using a merged database of the National Trauma Data Bank (NTDB) and Traumatic Brain Injury Model Systems (TBIMS) National Database, with acute care and rehabilitation hospitalization data and 1, 2, and 5 year follow-up data.

Setting

United States Level I/II trauma centers and inpatient rehabilitation centers with telephone follow-up.

Participants

Individuals in the TBIMS National Database successfully matched to their NTDB data, aged 18-59 years, with trauma severity, age, sex, employment, and SA data at 1, 2, and/or 5 years postinjury (N=2890

SUBMITTER: Awan N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7183422 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature