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Cognitive and Behavioral Outcome Following Mild Traumatic Head Injury in Children

Ponsford, Jennie, Willmott, Catherine, Rothwell, Andrew, Cameron, Peter, Ayton, Gary, Nelms, Robyn, Curran, Carolyn, Ng, Kim T·1999·Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation
DOI 10.1097/00001199-199908000-00005
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Objectives To investigate outcome in children with mild traumatic head injury (THI) at 1 week and 3 months postinjury and to identify factors associated with persisting problems. Design Postconcussional symptomatology, behavior ratings, and neuropsychological test performance were examined at 1 week and 3 months postinjury. Setting Participants were recruited from successive presentations to emergency departments of two major hospitals. Participants 130 Children with mild THI were compared with 96 children having other minor injuries as controls. Results Children with mild THI experienced headaches, dizziness, and fatigue but exhibited no cognitive impairments, relative to controls, at 1 week postinjury. By 3 months, symptoms had resolved. However, 17% of children showed significant ongoing problems. They were more likely to have a history of previous head injury, learning difficulties, neurological or psychiatric problems, or family stressors. Conclusions Persisting problems following mild head injury in children are more common in those with previous head injury, preexisting learning difficulties, or neurological, psychiatric, or family problems. These "at-risk" children should be identified in the emergency department and monitored.

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  • Uncomplicated mild traumatic brain injury is typically not expected to be associated with significant lasting cognitive impairment in children who do not have compromised psychosocial backgrounds.

    “This investigation was limited to patients who had at least complicated mild or moderate TBI (as evidenced by the presence of intracranial lesions on neuroimaging), because uncomplicated mild TBI is typically not expected to be associated with significant lasting cognitive impairment in children who do not have compromised psychosocial backgrounds (Ponsford et al., 1999; Satz et al., 1997).”

    From Criterion validity of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children–Fourth Edition after pediatric traumatic brain injury (2008) · cites this paper as Ponsford et al., 1999

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Authors
Ponsford, J., Willmott, C., Rothwell, A., Cameron, P., Ayton, G., Nelms, R., Curran, C., & Ng, K. T.
Affiliations
The Royal Melbourne Hospital (AU)
Corresponding author
Ponsford, Jennie
ORCID
Venue
Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation
Publisher
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)
Published
1999-08
Volume
14
Issue
4
Pages
360-372
ISSN
0885-9701 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1097/00001199-199908000-00005
OpenAlex
W2066016680
Cited by
299
References
24
Citations by year
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FWCI
3.23
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Epidemiology › Traumatic Brain Injury Research
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Neurology › Traumatic Brain Injury and Neurovascular Disturbances
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine › Automotive and Human Injury Biomechanics
Keywords
concussion, children, cognitive outcomes, behavioral effects, learning difficulties, family stress, risk factors
MeSH terms
Adolescent, Adolescent Behavior, Mental Disorders, Brain Concussion, Brain Diseases, Child, Child Behavior, Cognition, Dizziness, Family Relations, Fatigue, Follow-Up Studies, Craniocerebral Trauma, Headache, Humans, Learning Disabilities, Recurrence, Risk Factors, Outcome Assessment, Health Care

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