[Development of an integrative cognitive rehabilitation program for brain injured patients in the post-acute stage].
OBJECTIVE
This study was conducted to develop a comprehensive cognitive rehabilitation program that can be easily applied to brain injured patients by family members or nurses in community or hospital settings.


METHODS
A Systemic literature review design was used. Thirty-three related studies were reviewed.


RESULTS
Based on the results of the literature review, the training tasks for attention were designated to enhancing 4 hierarchical areas, i.e., focused, selective, alternating, and divided attention. On the other hand, the memory rehabilitation tasks mainly consisted of mnemonic skills, such as the association method which helps patients memorize given information by linking together common attributes, the visual imagery method, and self-instruction method. The problem solving rehabilitation program included a task of games or plays which stimulated the patients' curiosity and interest. The training tasks for problem solving were to encourage the process of deriving reasonable solutions for a problematic situation resembling real problems that the patients were faced with in their everyday life.


CONCLUSIONS
It is expected that the cognitive rehabilitation program developed from this study could help patients having difficulty in their every day life, due to a reduced cognitive ability resulting from brain injury, to effectively adapt to every day life.
Oh
Hyun Soo
HS
Department of Nursing, Inha University, Inchon, Korea. hsoh@inha.ac.kr
Kim
Young Ran
YR
Seo
Wha Sook
WS
Seo
Yeon Ok
YO
D001930:Brain Injuries / Q000150:complications / Q000451:nursing / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D003072:Cognition Disorders / Q000209:etiology / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D015928:Cognitive Behavioral Therapy; D006801:Humans; D008568:Memory; D011340:Problem Solving