Improving well-being after traumatic brain injury through volunteering: a randomized controlled trial

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• Alternative Title:
  Brain Inj
• Personal Author:
  Payne, Lisa ; Hawley, Lenore ; Morey, Clare ; Ketchum, Jessica M. ; Philippus, Angela ; Sevigny, Mitch ; Harrison-Felix, Cynthia ; Diener, Ed
• Description:
  Objective:
  
  To evaluate the efficacy of a novel intervention facilitating volunteer activity to improve well-being in individuals with traumatic brain injury (TBI).
  
  Design:
  
  Randomized two-arm controlled trial, with a wait-list control condition (ClinicalTrials.govNCT#01728350).
  
  Setting:
  
  Community-based setting.
  
  Participants:
  
  Seventy-four community-dwelling individuals at least 1-year post TBI, who had completed inpatient or outpatient TBI rehabilitation.
  
  Interventions:
  
  A novel intervention, HOPE – Helping Others through Purpose and Engagement, involving orientation/training and a 3-month volunteer placement for the participant, along with training for community agencies regarding TBI.
  
  Main outcome measure(s):
  
  Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS); Flourishing Scale (FS); Brief Symptom Inventory-18 (BSI-18); Scale of Positive and Negative Experience (SPANE); Purpose in Life subscale (one of six in the Ryff Scale of Psychological Well-Being – 54 item version).
  
  Results:
  
  There were significantly greater improvements in life satisfaction (SWLS) and self-perceived success (FS) in the intervention group compared to the control group. There were no significant treatment effects on the additional secondary measures of well-being, although they trended in a positive direction.
  
  Conclusions:
  
  This study supports our primary hypothesis that individuals who take part in a volunteer intervention will demonstrate greater psychological well-being in comparison to a control group.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Article Brain Injuries, Traumatic Humans Independent Living Life Satisfaction Traumatic Brain Injury Volunteering Volunteers Well-being
• Source:
  Brain Inj. 34(6):697-707
• Pubmed ID:
  32343631
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC8628307
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  90DP0034/ACL/ACL HHSUnited States/ ; U48 DP000034/DP/NCCDPHP CDC HHSUnited States/
• Volume:
  34
• Issue:
  6
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:9790c94c703f0ac0a725b17bdc502fb475290146f42d612c37fe71843c10b031
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/112136/cdc_112136_DS1.pdf
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