Loss of Consciousness and Altered Mental State as Predictors of Functional Recovery Within 6 Months Following Mild Traumatic Brain Injury.
Publication/Presentation Date
1-1-2020
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: The authors tested the hypothesis that a combination of loss of consciousness (LOC) and altered mental state (AMS) predicts the highest risk of incomplete functional recovery within 6 months after mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI), compared with either condition alone, and that LOC alone is more strongly associated with incomplete recovery, compared with AMS alone.
METHODS: Data were analyzed from 407 patients with mTBI from
RESULTS: A gradient of risk of incomplete functional recovery at 1, 3, and 6 months postinjury was noted, moving from neither LOC nor AMS, to LOC or AMS alone, to both. LOC was associated with incomplete functional recovery at 1 and 3 months (odds ratio=2.17, SE=0.46, p
CONCLUSIONS: These findings highlight the need to include symptom-focused clinical variables that pertain to the injury itself when assessing who might be at highest risk of incomplete functional recovery post-mTBI.
Volume
32
Issue
2
First Page
132
Last Page
138
ISSN
1545-7222
Published In/Presented At
Roy D, Peters ME, Everett AD, Leoutsakos JS, Yan H, Rao V, T Bechtold K, Sair HI, Van Meter T, Falk H, Vassila A, Hall A, Ofoche U, Akbari F, Lyketsos C, Korley F. Loss of Consciousness and Altered Mental State as Predictors of Functional Recovery Within 6 Months Following Mild Traumatic Brain Injury. J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci. 2020 Spring;32(2):132-138. doi: 10.1176/appi.neuropsych.18120379. Epub 2019 Sep 18. PMID: 31530119.
Disciplines
Psychiatry
PubMedID
31530119
Department(s)
Department of Psychiatry
Document Type
Article