Measures routinely used to assess the severity and outcome of closed
head injury, that is the Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) and the duration of
post-traumatic amnesia (PTA), are of limited use in the case of mild
closed head injury (MCHI). The present study investigated the
sensitivity of a proposed alternative measure, the Glasgow Coma
Scale-Extended (GCS-E), which is a combination of GCS and PTA
measures. Twenty subjects who sustai1ed MCHI were assessed with a
brief battery of neuropsychological tesrs, six months after the injury.
Correlations between the neuropsych1 logical measures and GCS,
duration of PTA and the GCS-E were not significant, possibly because
of methodological limitations. Although statistical methods do not
support the notion that the GCS-E is mere sensitive than currently
used measures in detecting the consequem es of MCHI, some support
is obtained from qualitative observations. / Psychology / M.A. (Psychology)
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:unisa/oai:uir.unisa.ac.za:10500/18046 |
| Date | 11 1900 |
| Creators | Foulis, Christa |
| Contributors | Grieve, K. W. (Katharine Wyche), 1950- |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Dissertation |
| Format | 1 online resource (ix, 139 leaves) |
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