The Relationship between Satisfaction With Life and Physical Health following Traumatic Brain Injury
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2023-08
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The Ohio State University
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Traumatic brain injury (TBI) has been established as a chronic medical condition complicated by comorbid conditions such as chronic pain, diabetes, hypertension, negative affect, rheumatoid arthritis, etc. Individuals with traumatic brain injury exhibit different levels of functional independence, cognitive impairment, and social functioning; those with more functional impairments are more likely to have a negative life satisfaction trajectory over ten years following a moderate-to-severe TBI (Williamson et al, 2016). However, life satisfaction and physical health as predictive tools for each other following a traumatic brain injury has not been investigated. This study of 1383 participants of the TBI Model Systems examined if life satisfaction, measured using the Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS), is predictive of physical health (PCS-12) after a TBI and if physical health is predictive of life satisfaction over a five year period post-injury. Using correlational and chi-square analyses, physical health and life satisfaction were determined to not be strong predictive tools and both were found to be stable during the five years following a traumatic brain injury. Outcomes of TBI are complicated by multiple factors and future studies must consider multi-variable approaches to predict life satisfaction and physical health trajectories.
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TBI, Traumatic brain injury, TBIMS, TBI Model Systems, life satisfaction, physical health, life satisfaction and physical health after TBI, SWLS, PCS-12