The Influence of Changes in Self-Concept after Brain Injury- Version 1
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Self-Concept Ratings of Brain Injury Survivors and their Relatives: Using the Head injury Semantic Differential Scale (HISD) III to investigate the influence on carers' burden and perceived social support of both carers and brain injury survivors.
IRAS ID
249254
Contact name
Christina Cusack
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
Research Integrity & Governance Office (RIGO)
Duration of Study in the UK
0 years, 9 months, 1 days
Research summary
Changes to how people view themselves (self-concept) after brain injury can have a profound impact on the well-being of survivors and could also impact relatives. Despite this, there are no studies which look specifically at how changes in people's concept of themselves after a brain injury affect relatives’ well-being or their perceived social support. Therefore, this study aims to investigate whether ratings of self-concept of individuals and their carers influence how they both perceive their social support and burden perceived by the carer.
The research will take place in local brain injury services, and will recruit brain injury survivors within those services and their nominated relatives. Participants will be asked to fill in some questionnaires; brain injury survivors will be asked to fill in a questionnaire asking about their concept of past, present and future self, in addition to the Social Provisions Scale which asks about their perceived social support. Relatives will be given the same questionnaires as well as the Care Burden Scale which asks about perceived burden.
Questionnaire responses will be analysed in order to determine whether self-concept ratings are correlated with perceived social support and the burden of carers.REC name
London - London Bridge Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
19/LO/0168
Date of REC Opinion
29 Jan 2019
REC opinion
Favourable Opinion