Relationship Between Neighborhood Disadvantage and Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Symptoms.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To test the hypotheses that (1) higher neighborhood disadvantage is associated with greater injury-related symptom severity in civilians with mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) and (2) neighborhood disadvantage remains predictive after controlling for other established predictors.

Setting

Level 1 trauma center and affiliated academic medical center.

Participants

N = 171 individuals with mTBI.

Design

Prospective cohort study.

Main measures

Rivermead Post Concussion Symptoms Questionnaire (RPQ) total score assessed less than 24 hours and at 2 weeks, 3 months, and 6 months postinjury. Linear mixed-effects models were used to assess the relationship between predictor variables and mTBI-related symptom burden (RPQ score). Neighborhood disadvantage w

SUBMITTER: Miller T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9998328 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar-Apr 01

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature