Trial reportThe Journal of head trauma rehabilitation
Factors influencing attrition in a multisite, randomized, clinical trial following traumatic brain injury in adolescence.
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- Long-Term Caregiver Mental Health Outcomes Following a Predominately Online Intervention for Adolescents With Complicated Mild to Severe Traumatic Brain Injury.Journal of pediatric psychology · 2015Trial
- Online problem-solving therapy after traumatic brain injury: a randomized controlled trial.Pediatrics · 2015Trial
- Psychosocial outcomes in young adults with childhood traumatic brain injury: A 20-year follow-up study.Journal of neuropsychology · 2026Article
- Outpatient Follow-up After Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury at an Urban Safety Net Hospital: A Retrospective Cohort Study.Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery · 2025Article
- Barriers to and solutions for representative inclusion across the lifespan and in life course research: The need for structural competency highlighted by the COVID-19 pandemic.Journal of clinical and translational science · 2023Review
- Effect of poly-arginine R18 on neurocyte cell growth via autophagy in traumatic brain injury.Experimental and therapeutic medicine · 2019Article
- Longitudinal Neuroimaging in Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury: Current State and Consideration of Factors That Influence Recovery.Frontiers in neurology · 2019Review
- Modelling attrition and nonparticipation in a longitudinal study of prostate cancer.BMC medical research methodology · 2018Article
- Impact of participant attrition on child injury outcome estimates: a longitudinal birth cohort study in Australia.BMJ open · 2017Article
- Behavioral Clinical Trials in Moderate to Severe Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury: Challenges, Potential Solutions, and Lessons Learned.The Journal of head trauma rehabilitationReview
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Abstract
backgroundAttrition in longitudinal research negatively affects statistical power, disrupts statistical stability, and can produce unwanted bias.
objectiveTo investigate factors associated with shorter length of study participation and lower rates of study completion (ie, attrition) in a large, multisite, longitudinal, randomized, clinical trial examining the efficacy of a Web-based family problem-solving treatment following traumatic brain injury (TBI) in adolescence.
settingFive major trauma centers in the central and western regions of the United States.
participantsChildren (N = 132) aged 12 to 17 years hospitalized for complicated mild to severe TBI within the previous 6 months.
resultsCompleters had a higher primary caregiver education and higher family income than noncompleters, whereas ethnicity, latency to baseline assessment, and intervention group were not significantly associated with study completion.
conclusionThis is the first study that has specifically examined factors of attrition in a pediatric TBI population. The results suggest that research on pediatric TBI populations may be biased toward higher-income families and highlights the importance of designing studies with increased awareness of the impact of participant demographic factors.
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