title: Monetary incentive effects on event-based prospective memory three months after traumatic brain injury in children.
abstract: Information regarding the remediation of event-based prospective memory (EB-PM) impairments following pediatric traumatic brain injury (TBI) is scarce. Addressing this, two levels of monetary incentives were used to improve EB-PM in children ages 7 to 16 years with orthopedic injuries (OI, n = 51), or moderate (n = 25) and severe (n = 39) TBI at approximately 3 months postinjury. The EB-PM task consisted of the child giving a specific verbal response to a verbal cue from the examiner while performing a battery of neuropsychological measures (ongoing task). Significant effects were found for age-at-test, motivation condition, period, and group. Within-group analyses indicated that OI and moderate TBI groups performed significantly better under the high- than under the low-incentive condition, but the severe TBI group demonstrated no significant improvement. These results indicate that EB-PM can be significantly improved at 3 months postinjury in children with moderate, but not severe, TBI.
authors.affiliation: Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Alliance of Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA. mccauley@bcm.edu
authors.forename: Stephen R
authors.initials: SR
authors.lastname: McCauley
authors.forename: Claudia
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Pedroza
authors.forename: Sandra B
authors.initials: SB
authors.lastname: Chapman
authors.forename: Lori G
authors.initials: LG
authors.lastname: Cook
authors.forename: Ana C
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Vásquez
authors.forename: Harvey S
authors.initials: HS
authors.lastname: Levin
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001930:Brain Injuries / Q000150:complications* / Q000523:psychology*; D002648:Child; D018592:Cross-Over Studies; D004467:Economics; D005260:Female; D015600:Glasgow Coma Scale; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008569:Memory Disorders / Q000209:etiology*; D061212:Memory, Episodic; D009042:Motivation; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D011446:Prospective Studies