Struggling with capital: Recovery after severe traumatic brain injury among working-age individuals in Denmark
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Summary
This summary is machine-generated.Survivors invest in physical capital during rehabilitation but face barriers to workforce re-entry due to inadequate community services. Enhanced support for emotional and cognitive capital is needed for equitable recovery.
Area Of Science
- Rehabilitation science
- Sociology of health
- Health economics
Background
- Rehabilitation trajectories involve survivors' investments in their bodies and accumulated resources.
- Capital theory provides a framework to understand these investments and their impact on recovery perception.
Purpose Of The Study
- To investigate how survivors' investments in their bodies and accumulated resources influence their perceived recovery.
- To explore the role of different forms of capital (physical, social, emotional, cognitive) in the rehabilitation process.
Main Methods
- Qualitative interviews with 20 working-age patients and their relatives.
- Abductive data analysis informed by Bourdieu's capital theory.
Main Results
- Survivors invest in physical capital during acute/subacute rehabilitation but face barriers converting it for workforce/education re-entry.
- Lack of specialized community services in later rehabilitation phases hinders resource accumulation.
- Current Danish rehabilitation prioritizes physical capital, neglecting crucial emotional and cognitive capital for working-age individuals.
Conclusions
- Danish rehabilitation's focus on physical capital and inadequate community services create unequal treatment.
- Comprehensive rehabilitation must address mental, cognitive, and emotional capital for equitable recovery and societal reintegration.
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