Citation

Krasny-Pacini A, Francillette L, Toure H, Brugel D, Laurent-Vannier A, Meyer P, Evans J, Chevignard M. Dev. Neurorehabil. 2016; 20(7): 456-461.

Affiliation

Rehabilitation Department for Children with Acquired Brain Injury , Hôpitaux de Saint Maurice, Saint Maurice , France.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2016, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/17518423.2016.1265605

PMID

28010184

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the long-term outcome in prospective memory (PM), seven years after childhood severe traumatic brain injury (TBI), in a prospective longitudinal cohort. PARTICIPANTS: 76 young individuals (aged 7-22 years): 39 patients with a severe accidental TBI included prospectively seven years earlier, aged 0-15 years at injury, and 37 controls individually matched on age, gender and parental education. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Three novel short PM tasks varying in the delay, motivation and context (ecological versus paper and pencil task).

RESULTS: Individuals with severe TBI showed significantly poorer PM than matched controls in the two low-motivation PM tasks: (1) the ecological long-delay task consisting of sending a letter on a rainy day (p=0.047, odds ratio = 2.6); (2) the non-ecological short-delay task consisting of taking off post-its while identifying facial emotions (p=0.004, r=0.34). Differences in PM on the high motivation were not significant. PM is impaired several years post severe TBI.

Language: en