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Assisting families of head‐injured survivors through a family support programme
Author(s) -
Acorn Sonia
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
journal of advanced nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.948
H-Index - 155
eISSN - 1365-2648
pISSN - 0309-2402
DOI - 10.1046/j.1365-2648.1995.21050872.x
Subject(s) - head (geology) , medicine , psychology , biology , paleontology
The purpose of this project was to develop, implement and evaluate a community‐based education/support programme for families of head‐injured survivors Three measures were used in evaluating the programme (a) a written evaluation by the participants, (b) the clinical impressions of the programme facilitators and the principal investigator, and (c) the three outcome measures coping, self‐esteem, and well‐being A pretest‐posttest quasi‐experimental design was used to test the effect of the intervention (the programme) on the outcome measures Data yield mixed results and suggest that the programme had considerable practical but not statistical significance