DEFINITION:
Determine if the person with brain injury has had any of the following psychiatric problems during the past year; according to the best source of information, which is the person with brain injury unless she or he is considered unreliable or is unavailable:
(1) Suicide attempt(s).
(2) Psychiatric hospitalization(s).
CODE:
Item (1): Attempted suicide in the past year?
1 No
2 Yes
7 Not due this year. [Code no longer used; data now collected in all follow-up years.]
0 Variable not in existence when data collected on this case
9 Unknown
Item (2): Any psychiatric hospitalizations in the past year?
1 No
2 Yes
7 Not due this year. [Code no longer used; data now collected in all follow-up years.]
0 Variable not in existence when data collected on this case
9 Unknown
EXAMPLE:
Person with brain injury reports he/she has not attempted suicide, has not had any psychiatric hospitalizations.
(1)
1
(2)
1
Traumatic Brain Injury Model System National Database Live Syllabus V10.3
Monday, September 25, 2006 10:35am .
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