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- Title
EFFECT OF VESTIBULAR REHABILITATION ON CHANGE IN HEALTH-RELATED QUALITY OF LIFE IN PATIENTS WITH DIZZINESS AND BALANCE PROBLEMS AFTER TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY: A RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL.
- Authors
SOBERG, Helene L.; ANDELIC, Nada; LANGHAMMER, Birgitta; TAMBER, Anne-Lise; BRUUSGAARD, Kari A.; KLEFFELGAARD, Ingerid
- Abstract
Objective: Secondary analysis, testing the effect on change in health-related quality of life of group-based vestibular rehabilitation in patients with mild-moderate traumatic brain injury, dizziness and balance problems. Design: A single-blind randomized controlled trial. Subjects: A total of 65 patients aged 16-60 years with a Rivermead Post-concussion Symptoms Questionnaire dizziness score ≥ 2, And Dizziness Handicap Inventory score >15 points. Data collection was performed at baseline 3.5 (standard deviation (SD)2.1) Months post-injury, end of intervention, And 4.4 (SD1.0) Months after baseline. Methods: Quality of Life after Brain Injury was the main outcome. Independent variables were demographic and injury variables, Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale, Changes on the Rivermead Post-concussion Symptoms Questionnaire (RPQ3 physical And RPQ13 psychological/cognitive), and Vertigo Symptom Scale-Short Form. Results: Mean age of participants was 39.4 years (SD13.0); 70.3% women. Predictors of change in the Quality of Life after Brain Injury were receiving the vestibular rehabilitation (p =0.049), baseline psychological distress (p =0.020), And change in RPQ3 physical (p =0.047) and RPQ13 psychological/cognitive (p =0.047). Adjusted R2 was 0.399, F= 6.13, p < 0.001. Conclusion: There was an effect in favour of the intervention group in improvement in health-related quality of life. Changes on the Rivermead Post-concussion Symptoms Questionnaire were also associated with change on the Quality of Life after Brain Injury.
- Subjects
STATISTICS; CONFIDENCE intervals; DIZZINESS; POSTURAL balance; VESTIBULAR apparatus diseases; HEALTH status indicators; HEALTH outcome assessment; RANDOMIZED controlled trials; QUALITY of life; QUESTIONNAIRES; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; BRAIN injuries; DATA analysis software; PSYCHOLOGICAL distress; DISEASE complications
- Publication
Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine (Stiftelsen Rehabiliteringsinformation), 2021, Vol 53, Issue 4, p1
- ISSN
1650-1977
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2340/16501977-2823