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

机动车事故和其他事故造成的创伤性脑损伤（TBI）是年轻人死亡和残疾的主要原因。记忆问题是创伤性脑损伤患者报告的最常见和最虚弱的症状之一。传统上，记忆问题的治疗主要集中在回溯性记忆或回忆或识别以前学过的信息的能力（例如，记住一个人的名字，回忆昨天的新闻报道的内容）。关于另一种被称为前瞻记忆的记忆问题的研究很少，前瞻记忆或记住在未来做某事的能力（例如，记住去赴约，记住在到期前支付账单）。然而，治疗脑外伤患者的前瞻记忆问题对于帮助他们重返工作岗位和成功融入社会是非常重要的。这是因为记住在正确的时间做事情的能力对工作和独立生活至关重要。此外，不治疗这类问题可能会有风险甚至危及生命（例如，忘记服药，忘记关掉电器）。本项目旨在评估两种康复策略的独立和联合效果，即提高记忆问题的意识和采用补偿策略。此外，该项目旨在评估对前瞻记忆问题的更好管理是否会导致更好的社区功能。

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.