- Title
- Traumatic brain injury rates and sequelae: a comparison of prisoners with a matched community sample in Australia
- Creator
- Perkes, Iain; Schofield, Peter W.; Butler, Tony; Hollis, Stephanie J.
- Relation
- Brain Injury Vol. 25, Issue 2, p. 131-141
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/02699052.2010.536193
- Publisher
- Informa Healthcare
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2011
- Description
- Aim: To compare rates of past reported traumatic brain injury (TBI) in a prisoner sample with those in a control group drawn from the same location of usual residence. Method: The prisoner group comprised a consecutive sample of men (n=200) received into custody and screened by face-to-face interview. The control group comprised men (n=200) matched for location of usual residence screened by telephone interview. Participants were asked about past TBIs and screened for drug and alcohol abuse, impulsivity and dissocial personality disorder. Results: Eighty-two per cent of prisoners and 71.5% of community participants reported at least one past TBI of any severity (i.e. with or without a loss of consciousness (LOC)) and 64.5% of prisoners and 32.2% of community participants reported at least one TBI associated with a LOC. Prisoners were more likely to report persisting side-effects of TBI and were much more likely to screen positive for impulsivity and dissocial personality disorder. Multivariate analyses found no significant association between TBI frequency or severity and custody/community group membership. Conclusions: High reported rates of TBI in prisoner populations may reflect the excess of socio-demographic risk factors for TBI. Results of the current study do not support a role for TBI as causally related to criminal conduct.
- Subject
- prisoners; traumatic brain injury; community comparison; Australia
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1047456
- Identifier
- uon:14786
- Identifier
- ISSN:0269-9052
- Language
- eng
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