Table 2.
Demographic and clinical characteristics between groups
| TDC | TBI | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mild | Moderate | Severe | All TBI | ||
| n | 19 | 3 | 4 | 14 | 21 |
| Sex | |||||
| Female | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 |
| Male | 13 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 15 |
| Dominant Hand | |||||
| Right | 16 | – | 2 | 13 | 15 |
| Left | 3 | – | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| Mechanism | |||||
| MVA | – | 0 | 2 | 6 | 8 |
| Fall | – | 3 | 0 | 4 | 7 |
| BFT | – | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 |
| Mean (SD) | |||||
| Age at testing | 13.19 (2.3) | 11.33 (2.5) | 13.75 (2.2) | 13.14 (2.4) | 13.57 (2.3) |
| Age at injury | – | 3.33 (1.5) | 4.75 (2.2) | 4.07 (2.1) | 4.10 (2.0) |
| Years post-injury | – | 11.33 (2.5) | 9.00 (3.7) | 9.47 (2.8) | 9.48 (2.9) |
| GCS | – | 14.33 (1.2) | 10.50 (1.3) | 5.71 (2.3) | 7.62 (3.8) |
| LDFR raw | 12.00 (2.3) | 10.67 (4.2) | 12.00 (4.8) | 9.57 (3.5) | 10.19 (3.8) |
| LDFR z-score | 0.42 (1.0) | −0.17 (1.6) | 0.25 (1.9) | −0.46 (1.4) | −0.25 (1.4) |
TDC = typically developing children. TBI = traumatic brain injury. MVA = motor vehicle accident. BFT = blunt force trauma. GCS = Glasgow Coma Scale score. LDFR = total score on the long-delay free recall trial of the California Verbal Learning Test – Children’s version (Delis et al. 1994)