The Effectiveness of Cognitive Rehabilitation with RehaCom Software on divided and sustained attention in Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)

Background and Aim : Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is one of the most common causes of disability, especially cognitive problems and mortality in the world. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of cognitive rehabilitation with RehaCom software on divided and sustained attention in TBI.Methods : 40 patients with TBI from Tabriz medical hospitals were selected through purposive sampling based on inclusion and exclusion criteria. They were randomly assigned to two experimental and control groups. Research tools included Racham Cognitive Rehabilitation Software and Continuous Performance Test (CPT-II). In order to perform the intervention, the rehabilitation software was given to the experimental group in 8 weeks and 3 sessions per week for 30 minutes.Results : Multivariate Analysis of Covariance (MANCOVA) was used to analyze the data. The results showed that cognitive rehabilitation with RehaCom software significantly improved divided attention (p <0.01) and sustained attention (p <0.05) in the experimental group.Conclusion : The results of this study showed that cognitive rehabilitation with RehaCom software improves the attention of patients with TBI and can be used as a complementary treatment method.

Keywords:

Cognitive Rehabilitation , divided Attention , sustained Attention Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)