Efficacy of Cognitive and Behavioral Interventions after ABI

1. Efficacy of Cognitive and Behavioral Interventions after ABI Kari Begnaud Master of Occupational Therapy Student LSU Health Shreveport

2. Objectives • Background • Purpose of Review • Study Objective • Search Strategies • Summary of Study Procedures • Methodology • Outcomes • Implications for OT Practice • Implications for Future Research

3. Background

4. Acquired Brain Injury ginacarson.com

5. Glasgow Coma Scale Glasgow Coma Score braininjuryhawaii.com

6. Severity of Brain Injury

7. Purpose of Review

8. Cost to Society and Client • Financial • Emotional • Behavioral • Cognitive Small window of opportunity brainline.org

9. Types of Rehabilitation Cognitive Rehabilitation Behavioral Rehabilitation Improves quality of life Retrains the brain in organization Patient education Compensatory strategies Adaptive devices Retrain individuals with disruptive tendencies Socially appropriate behavior System of rewards & consequences

10. The objective of this review is to investigate the efficacy of cognitive rehabilitation and behavioral rehabilitation for individuals who have an acquired brain injury resulting in attention, memory, and behavioral deficits. Study Objective

11. Search Strategies Search Terms Databases Brain Injury Cognitive Rehabilitation Behavioral Rehabilitation Occupational Therapy CINAHL Google Scholar PubMed

12. Summary of Study Procedures

13. Types of Studies • Prospective Randomized Controlled Trial (2) • One-group Pre-Post Study (2) • One-group Pre-Post Study/ Group Qualitative Study with Triangulation of Data (2) • Qualitative Inquiry • Case-Control Study with Pre-Existing Groups • Case-Control Study/ Group Qualitative Study with Triangulation of Data • Single-subject study

14. Participants • Acquired Brain Injuries • Age • 6.7 to 66 years • Gender • Predominately male • Time since injury • 77 days to 34 years • Sample Size • 1 to 120 participants

15. Study Criteria Inclusion Exclusion ABI (10) Cognitive deficits (7) Behavioral outbursts (3) Family members/ caregivers willing to participate (2) Severity of Injury Good awareness of deficit & completed cognitive rehab program (1) Children 6-18 Adults 18-66 Aphasia (2) History of substance abuse (2) Previous injuries (10) Deficits prior to ABI (10)

16. Cognitive Rehabilitation Interventions • Functional Training in vs. Cognitive Education (Salazar et al., 2000) • Attention Process Training (Boman et al., 2004) • Categorization Program (CP) (Constantinidou et al., 2008) • Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) (Gentry et al., 2008) • Amsterdam Memory and Attention Training for Children (AMAT-C) (van’tHooft et al., 2003; Sjo et al., 2010) • Insight of deficits and its impact on use of compensatory strategies (Dirette, 2002) • Qualitative study

17. Behavioral Rehabilitation Interventions • Token Economy (Mottram & Berger-Gross, 2004) • Response costs • Mystery motivators • Intensive positive supports (Gardner et al., 2003) • Teenagers • Operant conditioning-based behavioral intervention (Slifer et al., 1995) • 8 year old female • PTA

18. Outcome Measurements • Cognitive • Interview process • Canadian Occupational Performance Measure (COPM) • Craig Handicap Assessment and Rating Technique-Revised (CHART) • Visual & Auditory Reaction Time Tests • Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children III • Behavioral • Behavior Assessment System for Children Student Observation System (BASC-SOS) • Observations • Qualitative • Interview • Questionnaires

19. Methodology • Control Group (3) • Randomized Groups (2) • Small Sample Sizes (7) • < 10 participants • Inter-rater reliability (2) • Inclusion/Exclusion Criteria • No Mention • Vague • Large variability of intervention length

20. Limitations • Variability of sample sizes • 1-120 • Variability in time since injury • 77 days – 34 years • Lack of consistency • Length of intervention • Only 1 study looked at long-term effects

21. Results

22. Cognitive Outcomes: Setting Functional training in hospital setting vs. cognitive education in the home = no difference hickokcenter.org

23. Cognitive Outcomes: APT • Attention process training (APT) • 3 month follow up improvements in: • Attention • Selective Attention • Alternating Attention www.lapublishing.com/apt1-attention-process-training/

24. Cognitive Outcomes: CP Categorization Program (CP) Improvements in : • Ability to categorize familiar objects • Implement logical rules to categorize objects • Implement learned skills to categorize new objects

25. Cognitive Outcomes: PDA Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) • Pre & Post COPM • Pre & Post Satisfaction

26. Cognitive Outcomes: AMAT-C • Amsterdam Memory and Attention Training for Children (AMAT-C) Greatest improvements in Sustained Attention Tests of Attention, Tempo, Visuo-Constructive, Learning and Memory, and Executive Functions www.pearson.com

27. Cognitive Outcomes: Insight Insight of deficits and its impact on use of compensatory strategies qef.org.uk

28. Behavioral Outcomes • Token Economy • Intensive positive supports • Operant conditioning-based behavioral intervention

29. Discussion • Cognitive rehabilitation is effective • Behavioral intervention programs that use a reward system are effective

30. Future Implications

31. Implications for OT Practice • Understand phenomenological experience of ABI • Generalization of skills • Awareness and understanding of cause of deficit

32. Implications for Future Research • In-depth qualitative exploration of phenomenological experience • Increased control/comparison groups • Stricter inclusion/exclusion criteria • Increased sample sizes • Consistency with interventions studied

33. Questions

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