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The British Journal of Psychiatry 174: 360-365 (1999)
© 1999 The Royal College of Psychiatrists

Neurobehavioural symptoms one year after a head injury

S Deb, I Lyons and C Koutzoukis
Division of Psychological Medicine, University of Wales College of Medicine, Cardiff. Deb@Cardiff.ac.uk

BACKGROUND: Neurobehavioural symptoms are common immediately after a minor head injury but have not been studied one year after the injury. AIMS: To estimate the rate and pattern of neurobehavioural symptoms one year after a head injury of varying severity. METHOD: Adults who had been hospitalised after a head injury (n = 196, 164 of whom had a face- to-face interview) and showed indirect evidence of brain assault were assessed for the presence of neurobehavioural symptoms with the help of a behaviour rating scale. RESULTS: About 40% had three or more symptoms. Individual symptoms varied among 3% (social disinhibition), 15% (lack of initiative) and 35% (irritability) of the cohort. Premorbid factors such as lower social class and lower educational achievement, head-injury-related factors such a low Glasgow coma score, and outcome-related factors such as the presence of a disability according to the Edinburgh Rehabilitation Status Scale and psychiatric caseness according to the Clinical Interview Schedule--Revised, significantly influenced the rate and the pattern of behavioural symptoms. The pattern of symptoms varied between age groups and according to the severity of the head injury. CONCLUSIONS: A significant proportion of patients with varying degrees of severity of head injury showed behavioural symptoms after one year of head injury.


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