Good Health-Related Quality of Life in Older Patients One Year after mTBI despite Incomplete Recovery: An Indication of the Disability Paradox?

• Published in: Journal of clinical medicine Vol. 13; no. 9; p. 2655
• Main Authors: Coffeng, Sophie M, Abdulle, Amaal Eman, van der Horn, Harm J, de Koning, Myrthe E, Ter Maaten, Jan C, Spikman, Jacoba M, van der Naalt, Joukje
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland MDPI AG 01.05.2024
• Subjects: Aged patients; Anxiety; Brain; Comorbidity; Coping; Education; Health aspects; Hospitals; Injuries; Mental depression; Mental health; Missing data; Patients; Perceptions; Population; Quality of life; Questionnaires; Stress; Trauma; Traumatic brain injury; Variables; Netherlands; aged; health-related quality of life; older; outcome assessment; mild traumatic brain injury

: Older adults (OAs) with mild traumatic brain injury (OA-mTBI) are a growing population, but studies on long-term outcomes and quality of life are scarce. Our aim was to determine the health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in OA-mTBI one year after injury and to assess the early predictors of HRQoL...