Deans' stroke musings: Role of Character Strengths in Outcome after Mild Complicated to Severe Traumatic Brain Injury: A Positive Psychology Study

Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain! trillions and trillions of neurons that DIE each day because there are NO effective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 523 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.

What this blog is for:

My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Thursday, July 17, 2014

Role of Character Strengths in Outcome after Mild Complicated to Severe Traumatic Brain Injury: A Positive Psychology Study

And whom is going to do the same study for stroke?
http://www.archives-pmr.org/article/S0003-9993%2814%2900474-2/abstract

Robin A. Hanks, Ph.D.

Lisa J. Rapport, Ph.D.

Brigid Waldron-Perrine, Ph.D.

Scott R. Millis, Ph.D.

Received: March 10, 2014; Received in revised form: June 20, 2014; Accepted: June 30, 2014; Published Online: July 07, 2014

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apmr.2014.06.017

Publication stage: In Press Accepted Manuscript

Abstract

Abstract

Objective

To examine the effects of character strengths on psychosocial outcomes after mild complicated to severe traumatic brain injury (TBI).

Design

Prospective study with consecutive enrollment.

Setting

A Midwestern rehabilitation hospital.

Participants

65 persons with mild complicated to severe TBI

Interventions

None

Main Outcome Measures

Community Integration Measure (CIM); Disability Rating Scale (DRS); Modified Cumulative Illness Rating Scale (MCIRS); Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS); Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS); Values in Action Inventory of Strengths (VIA-IS); and Wechsler Test of Adult Reading (WTAR).

Results

Character virtues and strengths were moderately associated with subjective outcomes, such that there were fewer and less strong associations between character virtues/strengths and objective outcomes than subjective outcomes. Specifically, positive attributes were associated with greater life satisfaction and perceived community integration. Fewer and less strong associations were observed for objective well-being; however, character strengths and virtues showed unique value in predicting physical health and disability. Positive affectivity was not meaningfully related to objective outcomes, but was significantly related to subjective outcomes. In contrast, negative affectivity was related to objective, but not subjective outcomes.

Conclusion

Given the strength of the associations between positive aspects of character or ways of perceiving the world and positive feelings about one’s current life situation, treatments focused on facilitating these virtues and strengths in persons who have experienced TBI may result in better perceived outcomes and potentially subsequently lower comorbities.

Deans' stroke musings