![]() ![]() ![]() In Sweden, approximately 26,500 people are affected by stroke annually, a further 14,000 are treated in hospital for traumatic brain injury, but there are also hidden statistics to consider. However, for many individuals with ABI it is a challenge to return to work. Most people with ABI want to live a normal everyday life after the injury, such as returning to work, earning their subsistence and participating in society. One of the main causes of disability worldwide is acquired brain injury (ABI), which may result from cerebrovascular accidents, infections, toxins, tumors, or trauma to the brain. This suggests that rehabilitation and interventions need to address not only direct injury-related issues, but also person-related, activity-related, and rehabilitation-related factors in order to increase the patient’s opportunities to return to work. Conclusion Several factors in different aspects of life were risk markers for not returning to work among patients with ABI. ![]() Results Risk ratio analyses showed that several factors were risk markers for not returning to work: personal factors, including being a woman, being born outside of Sweden, having a low education level, and not having children in the household injury-related factors, including long hospital stay (over 2 months), aphasia, low motor function, low cognitive function, high pain/discomfort, and high anxiety/depression activity-related factors, including low function in self-care, inability to perform usual activities, and not having a driver’s license and rehabilitation-related factors, including being dissatisfied with the rehabilitation process and the attentiveness of the staff having limited influence over the rehabilitation plan, or not having a rehabilitation plan at all. Methods Retrospective data from the Quality register, WebRehab Sweden, on an ABI cohort of 2008 patients, was divided into two groups: those who had returned to work (n = 690) and those who had not returned to work (n = 1318) within a year of the injury. Purpose The aim of this study is to investigate person-related, injury-related, activity-related and rehabilitation-related risk markers for not return to work among patients with acquired brain injury (ABI). ![]()
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