Societal Participation of People With Traumatic Brain Injury Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A NIDILRR Traumatic Brain Injury Model Systems Study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To examine the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on societal participation in people with moderate-to-severe traumatic brain injury (TBI).

Design

Cross-sectional retrospective cohort.

Setting

National TBI Model Systems centers, United States.

Participants

TBI Model Systems enrollees (N=7003), ages 16 and older and 1-30 years postinjury, interviewed either prepandemic (PP) or during the pandemic (DP). The sample was primarily male (72.4%) and White (69.5%), with motor vehicle collisions as the most common cause of injury (55.1%).

Interventions

Not applicable.

Main outcome measure

The 3 subscales of the Participation Assessment with Recombined Tools-Objective: Out and About (community involvement), Productivity, and Social Relations.

Resu

SUBMITTER: Venkatesan UM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9889276 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature