@article{ref1,
title="Improving well-being after traumatic brain injury through volunteering: a randomized controlled trial",
journal="Brain injury",
year="2020",
author="Payne, Lisa and Hawley, Lenore and Morey, Clare and Ketchum, Jessica M. and Philippus, Angela and Sevigny, Mitch and Harrison-Felix, Cynthia and Diener, Ed",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="<b>Objective</b>: To evaluate the efficacy of a novel intervention facilitating volunteer activity to improve well-being in individuals with traumatic brain injury (TBI).<b>Design</b>: Randomized two-arm controlled trial, with a wait-list control condition (ClinicalTrials.gov NCT#01728350).<b>Setting</b>: Community-based setting.<b>Participants</b>: Seventy-four community-dwelling individuals at least 1-year post TBI, who had completed inpatient or outpatient TBI rehabilitation.<b>Interventions</b>: A novel intervention, HOPE - Helping Others through Purpose and Engagement, involving orientation/training and a 3-month volunteer placement for the participant, along with training for community agencies regarding TBI.<b>Main outcome measure(s</b>): Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS); Flourishing Scale (FS); Brief Symptom Inventory-18 (BSI-18); Scale of Positive and Negative Experience (SPANE); Purpose in Life subscale (one of six in the Ryff Scale of Psychological Well-Being - 54 item version).<b>Results</b>: There were significantly greater improvements in life satisfaction (SWLS) and self-perceived success (FS) in the intervention group compared to the control group. There were no significant treatment effects on the additional secondary measures of well-being, although they trended in a positive direction.<b>Conclusions</b>: This study supports our primary hypothesis that individuals who take part in a volunteer intervention will demonstrate greater psychological well-being in comparison to a control group.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0269-9052",
doi="10.1080/02699052.2020.1752937",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02699052.2020.1752937"
}