Citation

Luna-Lario P, Ojeda N, Tirapu-Ustarroz J, Pena J. Rev. Neurol. 2016; 62(12): 539-548.

Vernacular Title

Impacto del daño cerebral adquirido en la integracion comunitaria: reinsercion laboral, discapacidad y dependencia dos años despues de la lesion.

Affiliation

Universidad de Deusto, Bilbao, Espana.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2016, Revista de Neurologia)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

27270675

Abstract

AIMS:
To analyze the impact of acquired brain injury towards the community integration (professional career, disability, and dependence) in a sample of people affected by vascular, traumatic and tumor etiology acquired brain damage, over a two year time period after the original injury, and also to examine what sociodemographic variables, premorbid and injury related clinical data can predict the level of the person's integration into the community.
PATIENTS AND METHODS:
106 adults sample suffering from acquired brain injury who were attended by the Neuropsychology and Neuropsychiatry Department at Hospital of Navarra (Spain) affected by memory deficit as their main sequel. Differences among groups have been analyzed by using t by Student, chi squared and U by Mann-Whitney tests.
RESULTS:
19% and 29% of the participants who were actively working before the injury got back their previous status within one and two years time respectively. 45% of the total sample were recognized disabled and 17% dependant. No relationship between sociodemographic and clinical variables and functional parameters observed were found.
CONCLUSIONS:
Acquired brain damage presents a high intensity impact on affected person's life trajectory. Nevertheless, in Spain, its consequences at sociolaboral adjustment over the the two years following the damage through functional parameters analyzed with official governmental means over a vascular, traumatic and tumor etiology sample had never been studied before.

Language: es

Vernacular Abstract

Objetivos. Analizar el impacto del daño cerebral adquirido en la integracion comunitaria (trayectoria laboral, discapacidad y dependencia) en una muestra de sujetos con daño cerebral adquirido de etiologia vascular, traumatica y tumoral, durante un periodo de dos años tras la lesion original, y examinar que variables sociodemograficas, datos clinicos premorbidos y relacionados con la lesion predicen la integracion en la comunidad. Pacientes y metodos. Muestra de 106 sujetos adultos con daño cerebral adquirido, atendidos en el Area de Neuropsicologia y Neuropsiquiatria del Complejo Hospitalario de Navarra, con deficit de memoria como secuela principal. Las diferencias entre grupos se analizan con los tests t de Student, chi al cuadrado y U de Mann-Whitney. Resultados. De los participantes que antes de la lesion se encontraban activos laboralmente, el 19% y 29% recuperaron su estatus previo al año y a los dos años, respectivamente; a un 45% de la muestra total se le reconocio la discapacidad, y a un 17%, la dependencia. No se hallo relacion entre las variables sociodemograficas y clinicas y los parametros funcionales contemplados. Conclusiones. La lesion cerebral adquirida impacta con intensidad en la trayectoria vital de los afectados, aunque no se han estudiado antes en España sus consecuencias en el ajuste sociolaboral en los dos años siguientes al daño a traves de parametros funcionales valorados con instrumentos oficiales estatales en una muestra de etiologia vascular, traumatica y tumoral.