Table 3.
Demographics
| Mentees (n=6) | Mentors (n=6) | |
| Inpatient stay (days), mean (SD) | 72 (54.4) | NA |
| Admission FIM* score, mean (SD) | ||
| Motor tasks | 57.7 (26.2) | NA |
| Cognitive tasks | 22.0 (5.7) | |
| Age (range) (years) | 18–46 | 21–59 |
| Frequencies | Frequencies | |
| Gender | ||
| Male | 4 | 4 |
| Female | 2 | 2 |
| Injury severity† | ||
| Severe | 5 | 4 |
| Moderate | 1 | 2 |
| Ethnicity | ||
| Māori | 1 | 1 |
| Māori/Samoan | 1 | |
| New Zealand European | 4 | 5 |
| Employment | Preinjury | |
| Studying | 1 | 2 |
| Working full time | 3 | 2 |
| Working part-time | 2 | 2 |
*FIM, Functional Independence Measure; higher scores denote greater dependency; total motor scores can range from 13 and 91, and total cognition scores from 5 to 35.
†Moderate TBI: initial GCS scores 9–12 (of a possible 15) and/or PTA duration >1 but <7 days; severe TBI: initial GCS score <9 and/or PTA ≥7 days.65 66
GCS, Glasgow Coma Scale; NA, not applicable; PTA, post-traumatic amnesia; TBI, traumatic brain injury.