Remediation of chronic attention deficits in traumatic brain-injured patients.
The present study evaluated an A-B-A single case design attention-remediation program for traumatically brain-injured survivors with chronic attention deficits. Four adult male TBI survivors participated in an intensive, hierarchically ordered, attention-remediation program based on Posner's four-component model of attention. No clinically significant improvement was obtained on the attentional measures, neuropsychological variables, psychological characteristics, activities of daily living, or subjective ratings of changes in attentional abilities. The efficacy of this attention-remediation program for TBI survivors is examined in light of other outcome studies.
Gansler
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Boston Veterans Administration Medical Center, MA 02130, USA.
McCaffrey
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