Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation
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Arch Phys Med Rehabil · Feb 1996
Caregiver's burden of patients 3 years after stroke assessed by a novel caregiver burden scale.
To assess burden of caregivers to stroke patients three year after primary stroke and to test validity and reliability of a novel caregiver burden scale (CB scale). ⋯ The CB scale proved to be a valid and reliable instrument to assess caregiver burden. To improve the caregiver situation, individual patient personality characteristics, like extroversion, feeling of quality of life, and progression of the disease, must be considered.
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Arch Phys Med Rehabil · Feb 1996
Association between injury indices and outcome after severe traumatic brain injury in children.
(1) To determine whether indices of traumatic brain injury (TBI) in children are associated with outcome at hospital discharge and 5 to 7 years later; (2) to describe persisting disabilities. ⋯ Early and late outcome after severe TBI are related to variables measured at and after injury. Subjects had long-term educational and vocational problems but often did not utilize the medical model of neurorehabilitation.
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To assess whether operant behavioral treatment of conversion disorder provides effective and durable symptom resolution, and to evaluate the prognostic value of duration of symptoms, as to the time required to effect symptom resolution. ⋯ (1) Behavioral treatment of conversion disorder is effective, and appears to provide a clinically (but not statistically) significant long-lasting resolution of symptoms. (2) There is a strong positive correlation between duration of conversion symptoms and the time required to eradicate them.