TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1990//
TI  - The structure of head-injured patients' neurobehavioural complaints: a preliminary study
JO  - Brain injury
A1  - Hinkeldey, N. S.
A1  - Corrigan, J. D.
SP  - 115
EP  - 133
VL  - 4
IS  - 2
N2  - Psychological functioning in 55 severely head-injured individuals was investigated in order to extend findings on the long-term nature of psychological sequelae after closed head injury. Results showed that head-injured subjects reported numerous psychological deficits many years post-injury, were psychologically distressed by their own report (Brief Symptom Inventory) and that of care-giving relatives (Katz Adjustment Scale--Relatives Version), and also exhibited a different pattern of coping from that of a normative group. A three-factor model of residual psychological complaints that contained a 'General Complaints' factor, a 'Somatization' factor and a 'Severity' factor was identified; this showed some similarity to a model proposed by van Zomeren and van den Burg (1985). Results indicate support for the 'coping hypothesis' of post-injury psychological deficits, although effects consistent with a 'gradations of severity' hypothesis were also present.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0269-9052
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -