Awareness of activity limitations, goal setting and rehabilitation outcome in patients with brain injuries.
OBJECTIVE
To examine the relationship between self-awareness, goal setting ability (i.e. ability to set realistic goals) and performance/outcome in a cognitive task and for rehabilitation.


METHODS
Regression analyses were conducted to compare the predictive power of self-awareness and demographic/neuropsychological variables on goal setting ability and performance/outcome.


METHODS
Self-awareness of 63 patients with brain injuries was measured by direct clinicians' rating and the difference between patient and staff ratings in a questionnaire.


RESULTS
The awareness measures predicted 32% of the variance for goal setting ability in the rehabilitation context but only 4% of the goal setting variance in the cognitive task. Similarly, self-awareness predicted 33% of the variance for rehabilitation outcome but only 5% of the performance in the cognitive task.


CONCLUSIONS
Self-awareness seems to be related to goal setting ability and outcome in a long-term rehabilitation process but less in short-term experimental tasks.
Fischer
Sonja
S
University of Technology Chemnitz, Germany. sonja.fischer@s2001.tu-chemnitz.de
Gauggel
Siegfried
S
Trexler
Lance E
LE
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001364:Awareness; D001930:Brain Injuries / Q000523:psychology* / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D005260:Female; D006040:Goals; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D011379:Prognosis; D011594:Psychometrics; D012044:Regression Analysis; D012647:Self-Assessment; D016896:Treatment Outcome