Predictors of post-injury substance use in traumatic brain injury: Neuropsychological and motivational variables
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is the most prevalent cause of brain injury causing permanent disability in an estimated 80,000 Americans per year. Though the effects of alcohol and substance use in the TBI population are not well documented, addictive behaviors are thought to adversely affect outcome from the injury. The present study attempted to establish a predictive equation for post-injury substance use utilizing measures of executive functioning, motivation to change, and demographic variables. It was hypothesized that the combination of cognitive inflexibility and inability to plan behavior, the lack of motivation to change, and demographic variables that are known predictors of substance use behavior would predict level of substance use post-injury
Thesis, Dissertation, English, 2002