Resources

Mild Head Injury Booklets

Following the publication of findings from studies evaluating the impact of the provision of an information booklet to adults and children who have sustained mild traumatic brain injury, these booklets have been produced in large numbers, originally with the aid of a grant from the Jack Brockhoff Foundation. A revised booklet has been written specifically for children. The Department of Human Services has supported the introduction of the booklets into the Emergency Departments of all Victorian Hospitals. The Department provided funding for information sessions to be conducted in each of these Emergency Departments They also provided funds for the reprinting of the booklets and for an evaluation of their usefulness from the perspective of the patients receiving them. The evaluation study was conducted at several metropolitan and country hospitals including: Ballarat Base Hospital, Geelong Hospital, Northern Hospital, Sandringham and District Hospital and Epworth Hospital. Patients who agreed to participate were contacted by telephone. Fifty such interviews were conducted and the response from patients was found to be very positive.

The publication of the study evaluating the use of the children's booklet in the international journal, "Paediatrics", and more recently the publication of results of the evaluation of the adult booklet in the "Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry", has generated a large number of requests for copies of the booklet from all over the world. Both the child and adult head injury booklets can be downloaded from this website as Word files (see below). The booklets are copyright and cannot be reproduced without the permission of the authors.

Mild Head Injury - Children

• Word Format (DOCX, 0.78 MB)
• PDF Format (PDF, 0.44 MB)

Mild Head Injury - Adults

• English Word Format (DOCX, 1.28 MB)

• English PDF Format (PDF, 1.68 MB)

• Arabic PDF Format (PDF, 0.67 MB)

• Chinese PDF Format (PDF, 0.82 MB)

• Greek PDF Format (PDF, 0.82 MB)

• Italian PDF Format (PDF, 0.56 MB)

• Vietnamese PDF Format (PDF, 0.88 MB)

The Brain Injury Driving Self-Awareness Measure (BIDSAM)

The BIDSAM is a 28 item measure designed to assess awareness of on-road driving performance in adults undergoing a standardised on-road driving assessment following brain injury. For further information regarding the development and validation of the BIDSAM see Gooden, J. R., Ponsford, J., Charlton, J. L., Ross, P. E., Marshall, S., Gagnon, S., Bedard, M., & Stolwyk, R. J. (in press). The Development and Initial Validation of a New Tool to Measure Self-Awareness of Driving Ability after Brain Injury, Australian Occupational Therapy Journal.

• PDF Format (PDF, 0.76 MB)

HEADlines - our MERRC Newsletter

• December 2015 issue (PDF, 0.3 MB)
• January 2017 issue (PDF, 0.31 MB)
• June 2017 issue (PDF, 0.24 MB)
• March 2019 issue (PDF, 0.65 MB)
• October 2019 issue (PDF, 0.74 MB)
• August 2020 issue (PDF, 1.11 MB)

ABC Radio

Dr Dana Wong was featured on ABC Radio's Life Matters episode on using smartphones for rehabilitation of brain injury.
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Dr Cathy Willmott was featured on ABC Radio National's Sunday Extra episode on Concussion.
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Channel 7 News

Dr Cathy Willmott was interviewed on Channel 7 news about her her research investigating concussion in AFL players.
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Stroke Foundation podcast

Dr Rene Stolwyk and Doctorate of Neuropsychology students Toni Withiel and David Lawson were featured in the monthly Stroke Foundation podcast, discussing memory loss after stroke.
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