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Improving well-being after traumatic brain injury through volunteering: a randomized controlled trial
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5 11 2020
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Source: Brain Inj. 34(6):697-707
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Alternative Title:Brain Inj
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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.
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Pubmed ID:32343631
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Pubmed Central ID:PMC8628307
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Volume:34
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Issue:6
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