Prospective memory 7 years after severe childhood traumatic brain injury - the TGE 2 prospective longitudinal study.

Krasny-Pacini, A., Francillette, L., Toure, H., Brugel, D., Laurent-Vannier, A., Meyer, P., Evans, J. and Chevignard, M. (2017) Prospective memory 7 years after severe childhood traumatic brain injury - the TGE 2 prospective longitudinal study. Developmental Neurorehabilitation, 20(7), pp. 456-461. (doi: 10.1080/17518423.2016.1265605) (PMID:28010184)

Abstract

Objective: To investigate the long-term outcome in prospective memory (PM), seven years after childhood severe traumatic brain injury (TBI), in a prospective longitudinal cohort. Participants: 76 young individuals (aged 7–22 years): 39 patients with a severe accidental TBI included prospectively seven years earlier, aged 0–15 years at injury, and 37 controls individually matched on age, gender and parental education. Main outcome measures: Three novel short PM tasks varying in the delay, motivation and context (ecological versus paper and pencil task). Results: Individuals with severe TBI showed significantly poorer PM than matched controls in the two low-motivation PM tasks: (1) the ecological long-delay task consisting of sending a letter on a rainy day (p=0.047, odds ratio = 2.6); (2) the non-ecological short-delay task consisting of taking off post-its while identifying facial emotions (p=0.004, r=0.34). Differences in PM on the high motivation were not significant. PM is impaired several years post severe TBI.

• Item Type: Articles
• Status: Published
• Refereed: Yes
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Evans, Professor Jonathan
• Authors: Krasny-Pacini, A., Francillette, L., Toure, H., Brugel, D., Laurent-Vannier, A., Meyer, P., Evans, J., and Chevignard, M.
• College/School: College of Medical Veterinary and Life Sciences > School of Health & Wellbeing > Mental Health and Wellbeing
• Journal Name: Developmental Neurorehabilitation
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis
• ISSN: 1751-8423
• ISSN (Online): 1751-8431
• Published Online: 23 December 2016
• Copyright Holders: Copyright © 2016 Taylor and Francis
• First Published: First published in Developmental Neurorehabilitation 20(7): 456-461
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