Keywords

brain injury, community integration, outpatient, postacute rehabilitation

 

Authors

  1. Glenn, Mel B. MD
  2. Goldstein, Richard PhD
  3. Selleck, Elizabeth A. MPH
  4. Rotman, Michelle BS

Abstract

Objectives: To conduct a nationwide telephone survey to gather data on some of the quantifiable characteristics of community integration programs available nationwide to adults with brain injury.

 

Design: The Community Integration Program Questionnaire was used to interview 49 outpatient facility-based community integration programs between June 2002 and June 2003. We then used descriptive statistics to analyze the characteristics of the programs.

 

Results: There was tremendous variability in the areas of staffing, client, and programmatic characteristics.

 

Conclusions: There is considerable variability among programs with respect to quantifiable characteristics of facility-based community integration programs. Future studies should explore which charateristics affect outcomes.