Characteristics of facility-based community integration programs for people with brain injury

J Head Trauma Rehabil. 2004 Nov-Dec;19(6):482-93. doi: 10.1097/00001199-200411000-00005.

Abstract

Objectives: To conduct a nationwide telephone survey to gather data on some of the quantifiable characteristics of community integration programs available nationwide to adults with brain injury.

Design: The Community Integration Program Questionnaire was used to interview 49 outpatient facility-based community integration programs between June 2002 and June 2003. We then used descriptive statistics to analyze the characteristics of the programs.

Results: There was tremendous variability in the areas of staffing, client, and programmatic characteristics.

Conclusions: There is considerable variability among programs with respect to quantifiable characteristics of facility-based community integration programs. Future studies should explore which characteristics affect outcomes.

Publication types

  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Activities of Daily Living
  • Brain Injuries / rehabilitation*
  • Humans
  • Length of Stay
  • Program Development
  • Rehabilitation / methods
  • Rehabilitation Centers* / statistics & numerical data
  • Social Facilitation