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Elizabeth K Wise1, Christine Mathews-Dalton, Sureyya Dikmen
1Harborview Medical Center, Seattle, WA, USA. bwise@u.washington.edu
Objective:
To determine how participation in leisure activities for people with traumatic brain injury (TBI) changes from before injury to 1 year after injury.
Design:
Prospective evaluation of leisure participation at 1 year after TBI.
Setting:
Level I trauma center.
Participants:
Rehabilitation inpatients (mean age, 35.3 years; 77% male; 77% white) with moderate to severe TBI (N=160).
Interventions:
Not applicable.
Main Outcome Measure:
Functional Status Examination.
Results:
At 1 year after injury, 81% had not returned to preinjury levels of leisure participation. Activities most frequently discontinued included partying, drug and alcohol use, and various sports. The activity most often reported as new after injury was watching television. Of the small fraction who returned to preinjury levels, 70% did so within 4 months of injury. Sixty percent of those who did not return to preinjury levels were moderately to severely bothered by the changes.
Conclusions:
At 1 year after injury, many TBI survivors engage in a reduced number of leisure activities, which are more sedentary and less social, with a substantial fraction dissatisfied with these changes. While discontinuing some activities may be viewed as a positive change, there are few new ones to replace them.
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