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- Title
Service Use and Satisfaction Following Acquired Brain Injury: A Preliminary Analysis of Family Caregiver Outcomes.
- Authors
Degeneffe, Charles Edmund; Green, Richard; Jones, Clair
- Abstract
Purpose: The study aimed to understand how use and satisfaction with services following discharge from an acquired brain injury (ABI) acute-care facility related to family caregiver outcomes. Methods: A correlational and descriptive study design was used. Nineteen primary family caregivers of persons recently discharged from an ABI acute-care facility in a large city in the southwestern part of the United States participated. Results: Satisfaction with the services provided during post–acute-care rehabilitation demonstrated medium effect size relationships to family caregiver depression, family dysfunction, and extent of rehabilitation needs met. Service use demonstrated a medium effect size relationship to caregiver family dysfunction. Conclusion: Findings present a call for future research to examine the role of service use and service satisfaction during the continuum of care from acute-care to long-term community integration following ABI.
- Subjects
SOUTHWESTERN United States; CAREGIVERS; STATISTICAL correlation; CRITICAL care medicine; ETHNIC groups; FAMILIES; HEALTH services administration; SERVICES for caregivers; RESEARCH methodology; MEDICAL care; MEDICAL quality control; MEDICAL rehabilitation; HEALTH outcome assessment; PATIENT satisfaction; PATIENTS; RACE; REHABILITATION; SOCIOECONOMIC factors; REHABILITATION for brain injury patients
- Publication
Rehabilitation Research, Policy & Education, 2016, Vol 30, Issue 4, p421
- ISSN
2168-6653
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1891/2168-6653.30.4.421