Evaluation of rehabilitation strategies for prospective memory in individuals with traumatic brain injury

脑外伤患者前瞻记忆康复策略的评估

• 批准号: nhmrc : 277002
• 负责人: Prof David Shum
• 金额: $ 14.27万
• 依托单位: Griffith University
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: NHMRC Project Grants
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2004-01-01 至 2006-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://researchdata.edu.au/evaluation-rehabilitation-strategies-brain-injury/81743
• 关键词: Evaluation; rehabilitation; strategies; prospective; memory

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) resulting from motor vehicle accidents and other mishaps is a leading cause of death and disability in young adults. Memory problems is one of the most common and debilitating symptoms reported by people with TBI. Traditionally, the treatment of memory problems has focussed on retrospective memory or the ability to recall or recognise previously learned information (e.g., remembering the name of a person, recalling the content of yesterday's news stories). Little research has been conducted on problems with another type of memory called prospective memory or the ability to remember to do something in the future (e.g., remembering to attend an appointment, remembering to pay a bill before its due date). The treatment of prospective memory problems in people with TBI is, however, very important for assisting them to return to work and successful integration into the community. This is because the ability to remember to do things at the right time is essential for work and for independent living. In addition, failure to treat this type of problems can be risky or even life threatening (e.g., forgetting to take medication, forgetting to turn off an electrical appliance). This project aims to evaluate the independent and combined effectiveness of two rehabilitation strategies, namely, promoting awareness of memory problems and adopting compensatory strategies. In addition, this project aims to gauge whether a better management of prospective memory problem will lead to better functioning in the community.

由机动车事故和其他事故引起的创伤性脑损伤（TBI）是年轻人死亡和残疾的主要原因。记忆问题是TBI患者报告的最常见和最令人衰弱的症状之一。传统上，记忆问题的治疗集中在回顾性记忆或回忆或识别先前学习的信息的能力（例如，记住一个人的名字，回忆昨天新闻故事的内容）。很少有人对另一种称为前瞻记忆的记忆或记住将来做某事的能力（例如，记住参加约会，记住在到期日之前支付账单）。然而，TBI患者前瞻性记忆问题的治疗对于帮助他们重返工作岗位和成功融入社区非常重要。这是因为记住在正确的时间做事情的能力对于工作和独立生活至关重要。此外，未能治疗这类问题可能是危险的，甚至危及生命（例如，忘记吃药，忘记关掉电器）。本项目旨在评估两种康复策略，即促进对记忆问题的认识和采取补偿策略的独立和联合效果。此外，这个项目旨在衡量是否更好地管理前瞻性记忆问题将导致更好的社区功能。