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    Ryan Cummings, Anne Marie Hart, Kathleen Renee Hunter

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    Presentation: 10:45-12:00, Kennedy Union Ballroom

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    Description

    People who experience traumatic brain injury (TBI) have significant negative impacts to their physical health, mental health and independence. TBIs also add significant cost to public health systems and can create financial, mental and emotional challenges for families caring for TBI patients (CDC, 2022). This study is carried out in collaboration with the UD Brain Health Collective Student Workgroup to examine mental outcomes and experiences of patients who have experienced a traumatic brain injury. We use the public-use Traumatic Brain Injury Model System data from the National Data and Statistical Center to examine the relationship of patient independence, represented by employability and mobility, to mental health outcomes including anxiety, depression and suicidal ideation.

    Publication Date

    4-17-2024

    Project Designation

    Independent Research

    Primary Advisor

    Meredith L. Wronowski

    Primary Advisor's Department

    Educational Administration

    Keywords

    Stander Symposium, School of Education and Health Sciences

    Institutional Learning Goals

    Scholarship; Critical Evaluation of Our Times; Community

    Unraveling the Impact: Mental Health and Independence in Traumatic Brain Injury Patients

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