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ArticleJournal of clinical medicine2022

Health and Well-Being of Persons of Working Age up to Seven Years after Severe Traumatic Brain Injury in Northern Sweden: A Mixed Method Study.

Maud Stenberg, Britt-Marie Stålnacke, Britt-Inger Saveman

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Article in Journal of clinical medicine, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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  1. Traumatic brain injuries: a neuropsychological review.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2024
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Maud StenbergDepartment of Community Medicine and Rehabilitation, Rehabilitation Medicine, Umeå University, 901 87 Umeå, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0002-0061-5035
Britt-Marie StålnackeDepartment of Community Medicine and Rehabilitation, Rehabilitation Medicine, Umeå University, 901 87 Umeå, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0001-8605-2458
Britt-Inger SavemanDepartment of Nursing, Umeå University, 901 87 Umeå, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0003-3716-6445

Funding

Accident and Injury, and the Swedish Brain Foundation 150 000:-FOU Region Västerbotten RV-939400
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purposeTo explore the health and well-being of persons seven years after severe traumatic brain injury (STBI). MATERIAL AND

methodsFollow-up of 21 persons 1 and 7 years after STBI using surveys for functional outcome, anxiety/depression, health and mental fatigue. Interviews were conducted and analysed using qualitative content analysis. Convergent parallel mixed method then merged and analysed the results into an overall interpretation.

resultsGood recovery, high functional outcome and overall good health were relatively unchanged between 1 and 7 years. Well-being was a result of adaptation to a recovered or changed life situation. Persons with good recovery had moved on in life. Persons with moderate disability self-estimated their health as good recovery but reported poorer well-being. For persons with severe disability, adaptation was an ongoing process and health and well-being were low. Only a few persons reported anxiety and depression. They had poorer health but nevertheless reported well-being. Persons with moderate and severe mental fatigue had low functional outcomes and overall health and none of them reported well-being.

conclusionsThe life of a person who has suffered STBI is still affected to a lesser or greater degree several years after injury due to acceptance of a recovered or changed life situation. Further studies are needed on how health and well-being can be improved after STBI in the long-term perspective.

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healthlong-term perspectivemixed methodsevere traumatic brain injurywell-being

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PMCPMC8911135

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