The European Brain Injury Questionnaire (EBIQ) as a reliable outcome measure for use with people with brain injury.
OBJECTIVE
There is a need to develop reliable outcome measures to determine well-being after brain injury. In 1997, Teasdale et al. published the European Brain Injury Questionnaire (EBIQ), a self-report and relative-report measure of the subjective experience of cognitive, emotional and social difficulties experienced by people with brain injury. It is now used in several rehabilitation centres as an outcome measure, but its test-re-test reliability has yet not been determined. The primary purpose of the present study is to establish this degree of reliability.


METHODS
The EBIQ was administered twice within an approximately 1-month period to 50 people with brain injury, to 20 relatives of people with brain injury and to 51 normal controls.


RESULTS
The results showed significant and satisfactory test-re-test reliabilities for all three groups across all nine EBIQ scales (r = 0.55-0.90).


CONCLUSIONS
It is concluded that the EBIQ is a clinically reliable measure to determine the subjective well-being of people with brain injury and to assess change of subjective concerns over time.
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MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, UK. s.sopena@rhul.ac.uk
Dewar
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Nannery
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Teasdale
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Wilson
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D000328:Adult; D001930:Brain Injuries / Q000523:psychology*; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care / Q000379:methods*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012647:Self-Assessment; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires / Q000592:standards*; D006113:United Kingdom