| Measurement of social participation outcomes in rehabilitation of veterans with traumatic brain injury. | |
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PMID: 22492344 Owner: NLM Status: In-Data-Review |
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Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a significant concern in the veteran population, and the Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) has devoted substantial healthcare resources to the rehabilitation of veterans with TBI. Evaluating the outcomes of these rehabilitation activities requires measuring whether they meaningfully improve veterans' lives, especially with regard to community and vocational participation, which are strongly linked to perceived quality of life. In January 2010, the VA Rehabilitation Research and Development Service convened an invitational conference focused on outcome measurement in rehabilitation with a specific focus on veterans' community and vocational participation. This article reports on the working group, addressing the issues of conceptualizing and operationalizing such participation outcome measures for veterans with TBI; we discuss conceptual models of participation, review participation subdomains and their instruments of measurement, and identify current research issues and needs. Two avenues are identified for advancing participation measurement in veterans with TBI. First, we describe suggestions to facilitate the immediate implementation of participation measurement into TBI clinical practice and rehabilitation (cont) research within the VA healthcare system. Second, we describe recommendations for future VA research funding initiatives specific to improving the measurement of participation in veterans with TBI. |
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William Stiers; Noelle Carlozzi; Alison Cernich; Craig Velozo; Theresa Pape; Tessa Hart; Suzy Gulliver; Margaret Rogers; Edgar Villarreal; Shalanda Gordon; Wayne Gordon; Gale Whiteneck |
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Type: Journal Article |
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Title: Journal of rehabilitation research and development Volume: 49 ISSN: 1938-1352 ISO Abbreviation: J Rehabil Res Dev Publication Date: 2012 |
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Created Date: 2012-04-11 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 8410047 Medline TA: J Rehabil Res Dev Country: United States |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 139-54 Citation Subset: IM |
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Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 5601 Loch Raven Blvd, Suite 406, Baltimore, MD 21239. wstiers1@jhmi.edu. |
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