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Identifier	Thesis 1617
Author	Gothers, Ellen B
Title	Quality of life in brain injury survivors and caregiver stress / Ellen B. Gothers
Publisher	Central Connecticut State University
Date	2000
Resource Type	Master's Thesis
Notes	According to figures compiled by the Brain lnjury Association, approximately 99,000 people survive each year with permanent disabilities resulting from traumatic brain injuries (Olendorf, Jeryan & Boyden, 1999). Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a leading disability causing physical, cognitive, and behavioral changes in survivors, with a resulting decline in their quality of life and interpersonal relationships. Only a handful of studies have obtained input from both survivors and their caregivers regarding factors related to quality of life and support after the injury. In this study, participants (n = 36) responded to questionnaires designed to evaluate these factors. The sample consisted of 22 brain injury survivors and 14 caregivers who attended support groups through the Brain Injury Association of Connecticut or lived in the greater Hartford community. The brain injury survivors completed four self-reports assessing quality of life, cognitive failure, depression and social support. The caregivers responded to four questionnaires, two being self-reports of depression and caregiver burden. The other two surveys required the caregivers to report on the survivors1 quality of life and cognitive failure. Possible variables that may predict quality of life in survivors and caregiver burden were examined, such as demographic characteristics, depression, social support and cognitive failure. Caregiver burden was the only variable found to predict survivor life satisfaction when reported by caregivers. This showed a significant negative correlation between the predictor caregiver burden and survivor life satisfaction as reported by caregivers. This relationship suggests that as caregiver stress increases, the life satisfaction of survivors as perceived by caregivers is rated more poorly. Social support, cognitive failure, depression and other demographic variables were not found to be predictors of life satisfaction. Further, a relationship was found between how the caregiver views the quality of life of the survivor and caregiver's own level of stress, meaning that a caregiver who thinks the survivor's quality of life is poor is more likely to experience higher levels of stress. In general, the study had favorable results with survivors being moderately satisfied with their lives despite the fact that the majority of the sample had severe injuries. The study also found two strong relationships, one among depression and life satisfaction and another between cognitive failure and age. A significant relationship was also found between depression and smoking, showing that TBI smokers had higher levels of depression than TBI non-smokers. In this study, caregivers also exhibited positive outcomes, reporting low levels of depression and caregiver burden. A relationship was evident between caregiver burden and age, indicating that as age increases caregiver stress lessens.
Subject	Brain -- Wounds and injuries -- Complications Brain -- Wounds and injuries -- Complications -- Caregivers
Department	Department of Psychology
Advisor	Mate-Kole, C. Charles
Type	Text
Digital Format	application/pdf
Language	eng
OCLC number	48115963
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