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Quality of Life Outcomes in Mild Traumatic Brain Injury: A Cohort Study

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1 Prasoon Saurabh, 2Rohit Kumar, 3Rishi Kant Singh

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Aim: To study the impact of mild traumatic brain injury (MTBI) on patients with regards to the course of quality of life outcomes. Materials and Methods: 100 patients aged 18-65 who fulfilled WHO criteria for mild traumatic brain injury (non-surgically managed) were evaluated at 1, 3 and 6 months post injury data was collected with the help of following questionnaire- The World Health Organization Quality of Life (WHOQOL)-BREF for evaluation of quality of life. Percentage, Friedman Test, Repeated measures ANOVA tests were used. Statistical analysis was carried out using Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) version 17.0 (IBM SPSS, US) software. Data are reported as means and standard deviations unless not indicated otherwise. For the study of paired observations Wilcoxon` signedranks-test was used.

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