title: Obtaining a History of Childhood Traumatic Brain Injury Using the Ohio State University TBI Identification Method to Elicit Adult Recall.
abstract: To investigate the concordance between medically documented childhood traumatic brain injury (TBI) and recall of same by adults aged 35 years.
  
  
  
  A total of 962 birth cohort members from the Christchurch Health and Development Study available at the 35-year follow-up.
  
  
  
  Childhood TBI information prospectively collected yearly over ages 0 to 15 years as part of the Christchurch Health and Development Study. At age 35 years, cohort members were administered the Ohio State University TBI Identification Method (OSU TBI-ID) to elicit recall of TBIs with loss of consciousness (LOC).
  
  
  
  Ninety-four individuals reported 116 TBI events. Twenty-five TBI events resulting in LOC, 17 (68%) were recalled (true positives) and 8 (32%) were not recalled (false negatives). LOC was incorrectly recalled for 56 events (false positives), but 868 individuals correctly recalled no TBI event (no LOC). A further 35 events were (correctly) recalled for which a TBI had been recorded but no LOC (true negatives; 91.8%).
  
  
  
  We evaluated the utility of the OSU TBI-ID to identify adult recall of childhood TBI with LOC occurring 19 to 35 years earlier. Most of the cohort accurately reported whether or not they had experienced a medically attended TBI with LOC, indicating that a positive result from the OSU TBI-ID provides useful screening information.
authors.affiliation: Melbourne School of Psychological Science, The University of Melbourne, Australia (Dr McKinlay); Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, The Ohio State University, Columbus (Drs Corrigan and Bogner); and Christchurch Health and Development Study, University of Otago, Christchurch, New Zealand (Mr Horwood).
authors.forename: Audrey
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: McKinlay
authors.forename: John D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Corrigan
authors.forename: Jennifer A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Bogner
authors.forename: L John
authors.initials: LJ
authors.lastname: Horwood
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000070642:Brain Injuries, Traumatic / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D015331:Cohort Studies; D005260:Female; D006760:Hospitalization / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D015601:Injury Severity Score; D016013:Likelihood Functions; D008297:Male; D011939:Mental Recall; D009520:New Zealand; D000071066:Patient Reported Outcome Measures; D011237:Predictive Value of Tests; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D057566:Self Report; D014474:Unconsciousness / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology; D055815:Young Adult