Symposium

Traumatic Brain Injury Caregivers: Understanding the Resilience, Readiness, and Resources Needed to Improve Health, Functioning and Needs Post-injury 9585

Corresponding Presenter(s)

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  Fedora Biney, PhD, ABPP (she/her/hers)

  Assistant Professor
  University of Alabama at Birmingham
  Birmingham, Alabama, United States

  Slides

Presenter(s)

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  Jennifer H. Marwitz, MA (she/her/hers)

  Director, TBI Research
  University of Alabama at Birmingham
  Birmingham, AL, United States
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  Bani Malhotra, Ph.D., ATR-BC

  Postdoctoral Fellow
  Virginia Commonwealth University
  Richmond, Virginia, United States
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  Stephanie D. Agtarap, PhD (she/her/hers)

  Research Scientist
  Craig Hospital
  Englewood, Colorado, United States
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  Daniel W. Klyce, Ph.D., ABPP

  Clinician Investigator / Associate Professor
  Richmond VA Medical Center / Virginia Commonwealth University
  Richmond, Virginia, United States

We provide support for the Preparedness for the Transition Home (PATH-25) assessment as a screening tool for caregiver readiness during inpatient rehabilitation for moderate-severe TBI. Findings from the prospective, mixed-methods cohort (N = 50) also include associations with caregiver unmet needs, burden, and health at 3- and 6-month post-discharge follow-up.

Learning Objectives:

• Identify one unmet need for TBI caregivers with a positive pre-injury psychiatric history.
• Describe the pattern of depression and anxiety symptoms caregivers experience 6-months to 24-months post-injury.
• Describe specific family needs that are associated with greater caregiver resilience.
• Evaluate how evaluating screening for readiness relates to caregiving well-being, and needs in the first 6-months post-rehabilitation discharge.
• Identify the core treatment components of a new telehealth intervention for caregivers of Veterans and Service Members with a history of TBI.
• Identify one unmet need for TBI caregivers with a positive pre-injury psychiatric history.