[Resilience in Patients With Brain Injury]

After brain injury, patients must adapt to their altered lives and undergo long-term rehabilitation, which is a process that imposes increasing burdens on personal health, families, and society. In facing adversities in life, having a relatively high level of self-resilience can help patients secure critical support and successfully adapt to life changes. In this article, a literature review is used to discuss the challenges faced by patients with brain injuries and resilience in these patients is systematically and objectively analyzed using concept analysis. The significant mechanisms identified include the difficulties associated with having predisposing factors, internal and external risk factors, protective factors of attributes, and disease progression of the outcome. Furthermore, commonly used assessment tools in Taiwan and elsewhere are introduced, and empirical strategies that have been deployed in recent years to enhance scholarly understanding of resilience in patients with brain injuries and its progressive improvement are discussed. The objective of this study was to help medical professionals better understand the nature of resilience in patients with brain injury, strengthen protective factors, reduce risk factors, and ultimately improve resilience and quality of life.