Earlier models of disability emphasized the impact of only injury-related factors impeding community integration. However, recent models incorporate the significance of physical and social environment on community integration. This study aimed to identify perceived environmental barriers that impact community integration among an ethnically diverse sample of persons with traumatic brain injury ...

First posted April 29, 2021 For additional information, contact: Director, Science Analytics and SynthesisU.S. Geological SurveyP.O. Box 25046, Mail Stop 302Denver, CO 80225 The Community for Data Integration is a community of practice whose purpose to advance the U.S. Survey’s data integration capabilities. In fiscal year 2019, held 9 monthly forums, facilitated 11 collaboration areas, several...

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OBJECTIVE To assess long-term unmet needs in relation to community integration and employment status 4 years after subarachnoid haemorrhage. DESIGN Four-year follow-up of a prospective cohort. PATIENTS Sixty-seven patients with subarachnoid haemorrhage. METHODS Employment status was assessed and the Community Integration Questionnaire-Revised and Southampton Needs Assessment Questionnaire...

PURPOSE To examine community integration and contributing factors in people with aphasia (PWA) following stroke and to investigate the relationship between community integration and quality of life (QOL). MATERIALS AND METHODS Thirty PWA and 42 age-and education-matched control subjects were involved. Main variables were as follows: socioeconomic status, mobility, and activity of daily living...

Despite its importance as a theory in the development of programs for populations with disabilities, social role valorization (SRV) has received relatively little attention in community mental health research. We present findings of a study that examined the relationship of housing-related SRV to community integration and global life satisfaction of persons with psychiatric disabilities. The ho...

BACKGROUND/AIM Consideration of the relationship between meaningful participation, health and wellbeing underpins occupational therapy intervention, and drives measurement of community integration following acquired brain injury (ABI). However, utility of community integration measures has been limited to date by lack of normative data against which to compare outcomes, and none examine the gro...