@article{ref1,
title="Health and well-being of persons of working age up to seven years after severe traumatic brain injury in northern Sweden: a mixed method study",
journal="Journal of clinical medicine",
year="2022",
author="Stenberg, Maud and Stålnacke, Britt-Marie and Saveman, Britt-Inger",
volume="11",
number="5",
pages="e1306-e1306",
abstract="PURPOSE: To explore the health and well-being of persons seven years after severe traumatic brain injury (STBI). MATERIAL AND METHODS: Follow-up of 21 persons 1 and 7 years after STBI using surveys for functional outcome, anxiety/depression, health and mental fatigue. Interviews were conducted and analysed using qualitative content analysis. Convergent parallel mixed method then merged and analysed the results into an overall interpretation. <br><br>RESULTS: Good recovery, high functional outcome and overall good health were relatively unchanged between 1 and 7 years. Well-being was a result of adaptation to a recovered or changed life situation. Persons with good recovery had moved on in life. Persons with moderate disability self-estimated their health as good recovery but reported poorer well-being. For persons with severe disability, adaptation was an ongoing process and health and well-being were low. Only a few persons reported anxiety and depression. They had poorer health but nevertheless reported well-being. Persons with moderate and severe mental fatigue had low functional outcomes and overall health and none of them reported well-being. <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: The life of a person who has suffered STBI is still affected to a lesser or greater degree several years after injury due to acceptance of a recovered or changed life situation. Further studies are needed on how health and well-being can be improved after STBI in the long-term perspective.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="2077-0383",
doi="10.3390/jcm11051306",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm11051306"
}