Citation

Rosema S, Muscara F, Anderson V, Godfrey C, Eren S, Catroppa C. J. Neurotrauma 2014; 31(10): 899-905.

Affiliation

Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Child Neuropsychology, Flemington Road, Parkville, Victoria, Australia, 3052 ; stefanie.rosema@mcri.edu.au.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2014, Mary Ann Liebert Publishers)

DOI

10.1089/neu.2013.3226

PMID

24417184

Abstract

Childhood traumatic brain injury (CTBI) is one of the most common cause of mortality and morbidity with psychosocial outcome being the most debilitating; children and adolescents have fewer friends, lower self-esteem with a higher risk of developing any kind of psychiatric disorder after CTBI. During childhood, parents are mostly the source of information about the child, and when they are older, the child as well. However, if there is a discrepancy between reported symptoms and behaviors, this is generally seen as impaired self-awareness in the child with TBI. However, when these children and adolescents reach adulthood, this might not be necessarily true due to the change in relationship between child and parent. The aim of this study was to examine the agreement on self and proxy reported long-term psychosocial outcomes and investigate the predictors of outcome 16 years post childhood traumatic brain injury (CTBI). Thirty-three young adults (M=21.36 ; SD=2.75) with a CTBI and their significant other completed questionnaires assessing young adults' social and psychological functioning. A good-to-excellent agreement was found on the alcohol and drug use scales. There was poorer agreement for the overall internalizing symptoms, anxious/depressed, withdrawn, thought and rule-breaking behaviours. No injury related or pre-injury functioning factors predicted psychosocial outcomes reported by the young adults. Howe.

Language: en