Feasibility and Satisfaction with a Surveillance Prototype for Traumatic Brain Injury

Research Objectives Awareness that traumatic brain injury (TBI) can be a chronic condition has increased in the last decade. To manage TBI as a chronic condition, methods to provide clinical surveillance need to be developed. To determine the extent to which participants with TBI were satisfied with, valued, and were able to utilize a surveillance prototype for traumatic brain injury. Design Descriptive study and qualitative content analyses. Setting Community. Participants Adult patients with traumatic brain injury. Interventions All participants were simultaneously participating in a larger RCT investigating the impact of Resource Facilitation (RF). MyBrain© was part of the RF intervention and was offered to all participants randomized to RF. Data was collected from all RF participants utilizing MyBrain©. Main Outcome Measures The Post-Study System Usability Questionnaire (PSSUQ) is a 16-item standardized questionnaire designed to assess users’ perceived satisfaction of software in addition to a customized satisfaction scale designed to target satisfaction with MyBrain© specifically. The custom satisfaction scale is a 12-item Likert scale with five free-response questions. Results 71% of the participants either agreed/strongly-agreed that they were satisfied with MyBrain© overall on the custom satisfaction measure. Satisfaction ratings on the PSSUQ ranged from 70% to 100% across items. Approximately, 71% of the participants also agreed or strongly agreed that access to the self-management applications associated with the surveillance prototype. A variety of qualitative information was obtained to inform revision of the prototype, and the results of qualitative content analyses will also be presented. Conclusions The initial prototype for surveillance was generally found to be feasible and the majority of the participants were satisfied and valued access to the self-management applications. These findings will be used for enhancement of MyBrain© Author(s) Disclosures None.