Experience of mTBI-Like Symptoms in a Sample Without Brain Injury in Aotearoa/New Zealand

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aut.relation.issue1
aut.relation.journalBrain Impairment
aut.relation.volume25
dc.contributor.authorChua, Jason
dc.contributor.authorTheadom, Alice
dc.date.accessioned2024-02-12T23:45:36Z
dc.date.available2024-02-12T23:45:36Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.description.abstractBackground Post-mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) symptoms are not specific to mTBI and are experienced in populations without brain injury. Understanding how people without brain injury experience mTBI-like symptoms and factors influencing symptom reporting is important to determine how symptom experience differs following an mTBI. Methods To understand how people without a history of brain injury experience mTBI-like symptoms, we conducted a cross-sectional survey comprising sociodemographic characteristics, the Brain Injury Screening Tool symptom scale, general health rating, Illness Attitude Scale, Positive and Negative Affect Scale and Perceived Stress Scale. The mean total symptom score and proportion of people experiencing moderate or severe symptoms (≥4) were reported. Associations between sociodemographic variables, stress, negative affect, illness attitudes, health status and symptoms were examined using regression models. Results One-hundred and seventy-three people completed the survey with a mean age of 40 years (s.d. = 15.8; n = 82, 47.4% male). The mean total symptom score was 34.5( ± 26.6). Commonly experienced symptoms were tiredness (n = 73, 42.2%), poor sleep (n = 64, 37.0%) and headaches (n = 56, 32.4%). Regression analysis revealed that on average higher levels of worry about illness and negative affect were associated with higher symptoms (β = 0.5, P = 0.027 and β = 0.9, P = 0.020 respectively) but there were no significant associations with other variables. Conclusions Cognitive and vestibular-ocular symptoms occur much less frequently than physical symptoms in the general population and may be more specific to mTBI. However, there is a need to consider vestibular-ocular symptoms alongside illness attitudes due to greater concerns about these symptoms by patients.
dc.identifier.citationBrain Impairment, ISSN: 1443-9646 (Print), CSIRO Publishing, 25(1). doi: 10.1071/ib23070
dc.identifier.doi10.1071/ib23070
dc.identifier.issn1443-9646
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10292/17217
dc.languageen
dc.publisherCSIRO Publishing
dc.relation.urihttps://www.publish.csiro.au/ib/IB23070
dc.rights© 2024 The Author(s) (or their employer(s)). Published by CSIRO Publishing on behalf of the Australasian Society for the Study of Brain Impairment. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND)
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dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subject5203 Clinical and Health Psychology
dc.subject4203 Health Services and Systems
dc.subject42 Health Sciences
dc.subject52 Psychology
dc.subjectEye Disease and Disorders of Vision
dc.subjectBrain Disorders
dc.subjectPhysical Injury - Accidents and Adverse Effects
dc.subjectTraumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
dc.subjectTraumatic Head and Spine Injury
dc.subjectClinical Research
dc.subjectNeurosciences
dc.subjectBehavioral and Social Science
dc.subject3 Good Health and Well Being
dc.subject11 Medical and Health Sciences
dc.subject17 Psychology and Cognitive Sciences
dc.subject32 Biomedical and clinical sciences
dc.subject42 Health sciences
dc.subject52 Psychology
dc.titleExperience of mTBI-Like Symptoms in a Sample Without Brain Injury in Aotearoa/New Zealand
dc.typeJournal Article
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