TY - JOUR
T1 - Mood and anxiety in concussion and mild traumatic brain injury (MTBI)
T2 - A systematic review
AU - Rothschild, Lilianne
AU - Maerlender, Arthur
AU - Caze, Todd
AU - Higgins, Kate
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 by Begell House, Inc.
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - Objectives: Understanding the relationship between mood/anxiety and mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) is recognized as necessary, although slow to gain acceptance in practice. We hypothesized that the relevant literature was disjointed and unrelated. Such a state could contribute to a lack of wider acceptance and implementation. Thus we sought to analyze the literature on this topic, and demonstrate the relationships (or lack thereof) through a citation network. Evidence review: PubMed, Academic Search Premier, and PsycINFO were searched for peer-reviewed articles involving concussion, mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI), mood, or anxiety published between January 2005 and June 2015. Studies resulting from the exclusion process were rated for quality using a newly developed scale (Quality of Literature Assessment: QoLA), and incorporated into a citation network to determine interrelationships among studies. Findings: Twenty-four articles met the inclusion criteria. The QoLA identified 16 of moderate quality and none of strong quality; the remaining eight studies were rated as weak. Interrater reliability of the QoLA was acceptable (ICC=.754,p=.04), and raterjudgment of quality matched the empirical scale (Pearson r=.73,p<.001). Conclusions: Inspection of the quality ratings (QoLA) pointed to inadequate methodologies in most studies. Additionally, network analysis demonstrated little overlap of citations, indicating lack of scaffolding of findings that is a hallmark of mature science.
AB - Objectives: Understanding the relationship between mood/anxiety and mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) is recognized as necessary, although slow to gain acceptance in practice. We hypothesized that the relevant literature was disjointed and unrelated. Such a state could contribute to a lack of wider acceptance and implementation. Thus we sought to analyze the literature on this topic, and demonstrate the relationships (or lack thereof) through a citation network. Evidence review: PubMed, Academic Search Premier, and PsycINFO were searched for peer-reviewed articles involving concussion, mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI), mood, or anxiety published between January 2005 and June 2015. Studies resulting from the exclusion process were rated for quality using a newly developed scale (Quality of Literature Assessment: QoLA), and incorporated into a citation network to determine interrelationships among studies. Findings: Twenty-four articles met the inclusion criteria. The QoLA identified 16 of moderate quality and none of strong quality; the remaining eight studies were rated as weak. Interrater reliability of the QoLA was acceptable (ICC=.754,p=.04), and raterjudgment of quality matched the empirical scale (Pearson r=.73,p<.001). Conclusions: Inspection of the quality ratings (QoLA) pointed to inadequate methodologies in most studies. Additionally, network analysis demonstrated little overlap of citations, indicating lack of scaffolding of findings that is a hallmark of mature science.
KW - Anxiety
KW - Citation network
KW - Concussion
KW - MTBI
KW - Mild traumatic brain injury
KW - Mood
KW - Quality of Literature Assessment
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U2 - 10.1615/CritRevPhysRehabilMed.2016016958
DO - 10.1615/CritRevPhysRehabilMed.2016016958
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85031412078
VL - 27
SP - 233
EP - 250
JO - Critical Reviews in Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine
JF - Critical Reviews in Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine
SN - 0896-2960
IS - 2-4
ER -