A study to support return to work for persons with traumatic brain injury: Questionnaire investigation about cognitive burden in occupation

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 23500596
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Rehabilitation science/Welfare engineering
• Research Institution: Sapporo Medical University
• Principal Investigator: ishiai sumio 札幌医科大学, 医学部, 教授 (80193241)
• Project Period (FY): 2011-04-28 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 高次脳機能障害 / 認知機能 / 外傷性脳損傷 / 就労 / アンケート調査

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The present study made a questionnaire about the cognitive burden in the occupation and carried it out for 15 working subjects with cognitive dysfunction after TBI. Their cognitive function was measured by a set of neuropsychological examinations and the observation at the outpatient office. When the levels of cognitive function and the cognitive burden in occupation were profiled and compared, eight subjects showed the “bottleneck” pattern, three showed the “fairly matching” pattern, and four showed the “poorly matching” pattern. The questionnaire about the cognitive burden in the occupation is useful to clarify burdens in the wide variety of cognitive domains. In future, we want to apply this questionnaire in the survey of candidate workspaces before subjects with cognitive dysfunction return to work.

Free Research Field

リハビリテーション医学