TY - JOUR
T1 - Unawareness of cognitive deficits and daily functioning among persons with traumatic brain injuries
AU - Hoofien, Dan
AU - Gilboa, Asaf
AU - Vakil, Eli
AU - Barak, Ohr
N1 - Funding Information:
This study was supported by research grants from the Rehabilitation Department at the Israeli Ministry of Defense and from the National Security Institute of Israel.
PY - 2004/4
Y1 - 2004/4
N2 - This study examines levels of unawareness of cognitive deficits and their relationship to functional outcome among persons with traumatic brain injury (TBI). Data from 61 persons with TBI and 34 family members consisting of various measures were used. The results suggest that awareness of cognitive deficits is not differentially distributed along a concrete-abstract continuum of cognitive domains. Awareness in this sample was significantly related to psychiatric symptomatology and partially associated with behavior disturbances and daily functioning, but not with vocational outcomes. Persons with TBI who over-estimated their cognitive abilities were found to function worse on most outcome measures, except vocation, than persons who did not overestimate their abilities.
AB - This study examines levels of unawareness of cognitive deficits and their relationship to functional outcome among persons with traumatic brain injury (TBI). Data from 61 persons with TBI and 34 family members consisting of various measures were used. The results suggest that awareness of cognitive deficits is not differentially distributed along a concrete-abstract continuum of cognitive domains. Awareness in this sample was significantly related to psychiatric symptomatology and partially associated with behavior disturbances and daily functioning, but not with vocational outcomes. Persons with TBI who over-estimated their cognitive abilities were found to function worse on most outcome measures, except vocation, than persons who did not overestimate their abilities.
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U2 - 10.1076/jcen.26.2.278.28084
DO - 10.1076/jcen.26.2.278.28084
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C2 - 15202547
AN - SCOPUS:1842608710
SN - 1380-3395
VL - 26
SP - 278
EP - 290
JO - Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology
JF - Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology
IS - 2
ER -