Abstract
Wise EK, Mathews-Dalton C, Dikmen S, Temkin N, Machamer J, Bell K, Powell JM. Impact
of traumatic brain injury on participation in leisure activities.
Objective
To determine how participation in leisure activities for people with traumatic brain
injury (TBI) changes from before injury to 1 year after injury.
Design
Prospective evaluation of leisure participation at 1 year after TBI.
Setting
Level I trauma center.
Participants
Rehabilitation inpatients (mean age, 35.3 years; 77% male; 77% white) with moderate
to severe TBI (N=160).
Interventions
Not applicable.
Main Outcome Measure
Functional Status Examination.
Results
At 1 year after injury, 81% had not returned to preinjury levels of leisure participation.
Activities most frequently discontinued included partying, drug and alcohol use, and
various sports. The activity most often reported as new after injury was watching
television. Of the small fraction who returned to preinjury levels, 70% did so within
4 months of injury. Sixty percent of those who did not return to preinjury levels
were moderately to severely bothered by the changes.
Conclusions
At 1 year after injury, many TBI survivors engage in a reduced number of leisure activities,
which are more sedentary and less social, with a substantial fraction dissatisfied
with these changes. While discontinuing some activities may be viewed as a positive
change, there are few new ones to replace them.
Key Words
List of Abbreviations:
FSE (Functional Status Examination), TBI (traumatic brain injury), TBIMS (Traumatic Brain Injury Model System)To read this article in full you will need to make a payment
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Footnotes
Supported by the University of Washington Traumatic Brain Injury Model System (TBIMS). The National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (grant no. H133A070032) funds the TBIMS. This study was conducted in partial fulfillment of a Master of Occupational Therapy degree at the University of Washington for E K Wise and C Mathews-Dalton.
No commercial party having a direct financial interest in the results of the research supporting this article has or will confer a benefit on the authors or on any organization with which the authors are associated.
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