@article{ref1,
title="The impact of injury severity on long-term social outcome following pediatric traumatic brain injury",
journal="Neuropsychological rehabilitation",
year="2009",
author="Muscara, Frank and Catroppa, Cathy and Eren, Senem and Anderson, Vicki",
volume="19",
number="4",
pages="541-561",
abstract="Despite suggestions that pediatric traumatic brain injury (TBI) disrupts social skill development, few studies have investigated long-term social outcome following the transition into adulthood. The current study aimed to investigate long-term social outcome, in a sample of 36 survivors who suffered a mild, moderate or severe TBI between 8 and 12 years of age. At 7-10 years post-injury, the age of participants ranged between 16 and 22 years. Social outcome was assessed using a number of self-rated and parent-rated questionnaires, in order to obtain self- and other-rated accounts of the groups' current social functioning. Predictors of long-term social outcome were also explored, with findings suggesting that young people who suffered mild TBI during childhood tended to be functioning at a higher level on some measures of social functioning, compared to those that suffered a moderate and severe injury. Further, results suggested that pre-injury adaptive functioning and socio-economic status predicted long-term functioning for some measures of social outcome. Finally, social problem-solving skills predicted the success of social reintegration post-TBI. These preliminary findings indicate that there is a risk of social difficulties following paediatric TBI continuing into adulthood, and that a number of demographic, social, and neuropsychological variables continue to predict social outcome even at this late stage post-injury. <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0960-2011",
doi="10.1080/09602010802365223",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09602010802365223"
}