Review Article

Psychological Intervention in Traumatic Brain Injury Patients

Table 2

Types of psychological interventions and their main outcome measures.

Type of psychological interventions
 Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) () [4469]
 Psychoeducation () [1822, 2426, 53, 7076]
 Cognitive rehabilitation () [23, 27, 36, 56, 7781]
 Neuropsychological rehabilitation () [35, 82, 83]
 Other (e.g., dialectical behaviour therapy, mindfulness therapy, energy therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy, compassion-focused therapy, and positive psychology) () [7, 28, 34, 8489]
Main outcome measures
 Mental clinical profile, dysfunctional behaviour, anger, aggressiveness () [20, 21, 26, 28, 34, 49, 51, 53, 54, 56, 57, 63, 7174, 83, 84, 89, 90]
 Quality of life, life satisfaction, hope, psychological distress () [21, 27, 28, 47, 52, 57, 58, 60, 64, 65, 68, 7274, 76, 80, 8688]
 Depression, anxiety () [7, 20, 46, 50, 54, 55, 5860, 62, 65, 68, 69, 77, 81]
 Daily living, self-care, autonomy, return to work () [7, 21, 2326, 55, 57, 70, 72, 76, 77, 80, 81, 89]
 Cognitive deficits (e.g., attention, memory, emotion regulation, executive function) () [27, 34, 36, 45, 56, 57, 67, 69, 72, 73, 7882]
 Postconcussive symptoms () [22, 24, 25, 35, 64, 66, 72, 74, 76, 89]
 PTSD () [34, 44, 66, 69, 74, 78, 81, 85]

Note: a work may include more than one type of intervention and/or outcome measure.