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Who benefits? Outcome following a coping skills group intervention for traumatically brain injured individuals
1School of Psychology, Psychiatry and Psychological Medicine, Monash University, Victoria, Australia. katie.anson@gmail.com
Primary Objective:
To investigate the variables associated with positive psychological outcome following a group intervention for 33 individuals with traumatic brain injury.
Research Design:
Evaluation study which used multiple regression analysis to examine the variables associated with change in psychological adjustment following a 10-session cognitive behaviour therapy-based group.
Methods And Procedures:
The predictor variables were age at injury, time since injury, injury severity, self-awareness, pre-morbid intellectual function, memory function, executive function and level of depression and anxiety prior to intervention.
Main Outcomes And Results:
The predictor variables contributed a significant proportion of the variance in percentage change in depression. The major finding was that better outcomes following intervention were associated with greater self-awareness of injury-related deficits.
Conclusions:
The present study identified a number of variables that were associated with improvement in depression following psychological intervention and may assist future treatment resources to be directed most effectively.
